Interested in Safe Zone training?
MMU offers Safe Zone training to increase awareness and show coMMUnity support.
Our name is Mercy. Our spirit is compassion.
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:
- Abilities
- Gender
- Race
- Nationality
- Sex
- Orientation
- Economic Status
- Religion
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee promotes the university’s collective efforts to:
- Grow in diversity as a community by actively recruiting student populations that are underrepresented in our population.
- Create productive, meaningful encounters with different perspectives in a welcoming multicultural environment.
- Ensure the success and safety of individuals with marginalized identities, varying economic status, and abilities.
- Develop programs, services, and initiatives that help educate, support, and engage the campus in social justice and equity.
DEIC Committee Members
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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 |
AmeriCorps Campus Compact Program
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:
- In-depth social justice advocacy training
- Community engagement research practice
- Collaboration opportunities with local non-profits
- Experience in program development and capacity building
- Education award from AmeriCorps upon successful program completion
For more information, please contact Keesha Burke-Henderson at kburke-henderson@mtmercy.edu.
Bias Policy
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.