Minority Students
Graduate and undergraduate education at SFA encompasses many cultures. Your educational experience affords a wonderful opportunity to know faculty, staff and fellow students as individuals and an opportunity to treat them fairly and free of conscious bias or unconscious assumptions. The university has a strong, continuing commitment to ethnic and cultural diversity in every aspect of university life and encourages the full participation of minority students, students with disabilities and international students in all disciplines and programs.

Students from non-traditional groups may need extra consideration, encouragement and friendship. Your experience at SFA will be enriched by meeting and exchanging views with a wide range of individuals and cultures. Do not, for example, make the mistake of expecting African-American, Native American, Hispanic or International students to always represent a "minority" perspective or to comment exclusively on minority issues.

There is no such collective thing as the African-American, Latino or Asian-American viewpoint on most issues. Sensitivity to the individual will enrich your time at the university and enrich the intellectual community of educated men and women.