Interested in Safe Zone training?
MMU offers Safe Zone training to increase awareness and show coMMUnity support.
Mount Mercy University prepares global citizens who are culturally aware, socially conscious, and service oriented. We foster an environment of openness, advocacy, and safety for all members of our campus community.
MMU's diversity office ensures that everyone feels safe in their identity, safe on campus, gets engaged, and is represented. We advocate, consult, provide guidance, and work across campus resources. We expect the mercy heritage is extended to all:
The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee promotes the university’s collective efforts to:
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Keesha Burke Henderson |
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Sister Linda Bechen |
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Derek Stephens Head Coach Track & Field |
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Jennifer Schmidt Associate Professor of Education |
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Belkis Suarez Associate Professor of Spanish |
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Eyad Said Assistant Professor of Mathematics |
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Lee Ann Olson Human Resources Officer |
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Emma Lantz |
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Robyn Clark-Bridges |
Students passionate about social justice and civic action can join the Diversity and International Student Success Ambassadors program. Through Mount Mercy University’s partnership with AmeriCorps’ Campus Compact program, students will become social justice advocates and gain practical experience for future advocacy work.
Students will receive the following benefits:
For more information, please contact Keesha Burke-Henderson at kburke-henderson@mtmercy.edu.
We are committed to ensuring that our campus community is a safe place where all students thrive. Therefore our policy is to robustly safeguard our mission, values and statement of inclusion throughout our campus which includes our faculty, staff, student body and invited guest. There is zero tolerance for any acts of aggression, discrimination, name-calling or prejudice; particularly against any person that is a member of any group that has systematically experienced violence or exclusion due to social and policy inequities.