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5.6 percent

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

In 1985 Calvin College adopted a governing document which was quite unique amongst its peers in higher education: The Comprehensive Plan for Integrating North American Ethnic Minority Persons and Their Interests in Every Facet of Calvin’s Institutional Life.  The Comprehensive Plan, re-written and re-embraced in 2004 as a new document entitled From Every Nation (FEN), continues to provide guidance as Calvin’s principal road map towards becoming a genuinely multicultural Christian academic community.

The original Comprehensive Plan set an aggressive goal: that by 2003-2004, 15 percent of the student body, roughly 600 students, would constitute North American minority, or AHANA students. AHANA is Calvin’s designation for students of African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, and Native American descent.

Today, AHANA students comprise 5.6 percent of Calvin’s student body--235 students to be precise. (This percentage does not include any of Calvin’s 315 international students). The AHANA percentage is slightly higher for faculty and staff at 6.5 percent, equaling 56 faculty/staff members.

Why has Calvin fallen short of the goal of 15 percent?  To be sure, the reasons are numerous and complex. 

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