BNAACC Mission & Goals
Mission
• To serve as a vehicle for self-expression and leadership enhancement to students of African descent through the vehicles of workshops, seminars, and performing groups.
• To promote campus-wide understanding of the unique contributions of African-Americans to the life and culture of the campus, the nation and indeed the world.
Goals
• To encourage within African American students a growing sense of pride and dignity based on their rightful cultural heritage, and to assist them in acquiring a growing cultural awareness.
• To create within the University a body of valuable information about and talent related to the African American experience, so that the University and the C-U community may be afforded an objective and accurate interpretation of that experience through the performing arts, classes, seminars, and other appropriate media.
• To assist the University community in understanding the relevance, efficacy and the strength of the African American experience in terms which will encourage non-African Americans to understand and appreciate the importance of diversity.
• To assume a pro-active position in issues affecting African American students enrolled in or considering admission to the University.
• To develop cultural and educational programs which will assist and support African American, and other students enrolled at the University.
• To provide opportunities for all students to engage in the vital cultural and social experience of meeting, interacting with, and learning from students of diverse backgrounds.
• To support programs that sustain African American culture.
• To provide assistance to African American, and other, student organizations on this campus.
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