Community
Diversity
Diversity at the BAC
This page was designed to provide students with a list of organizations, events and resources at the Boston Architectural Center that are reflective of our commitment to fostering a diverse community. Students will also have the opportunity to access links to events related to diversity happening in and around Boston.
Diversity Committee Statement
The Boston Architectural College is committed to promoting a community that celebrates, affirms, and vigorously pursues inclusiveness in all its forms.
The BAC:
- Offers affordable tuition and open admission, thus providing access to the study of design to all, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or socioeconomic status
- Strives to create an environment that recognizes difference, demands mutual respect and understanding and promotes a spirit of inclusiveness and richness of experience and opportunity
- Fosters pluralism in the design community at large by educating and encouraging our students, staff, faculty, volunteers and affiliated design firms to embrace and carry these ideals into their work outside the BAC.
Diversity Committee Mission
- Provide recommendations to HR for increasing the focus on diverse staff recruitment
- Search for faculty and staff with an intentional focus on diversity. Present potential questions to applicants
- Provide recommendations for faculty recruitment with intentional consideration of backgrounds and identity
- Assist faculty development in training faculty to teach for diversity in the classroom - Suggest recruitment options for diversity
- Encourage and sponsor student groups and student activities
- Assist program directors to consider each academic curriculum in terms of diversity or celebration of different perspectives
- Sponsor and support diversity discussions in the classroom
- Contribute to the diversity initiatives of the BSA, ASID, BSLA, ProArts Consortium and other organizations.
Sasaki Associates
Sasaki’s work incorporates careful and rigorous analysis and synthesis of economic reality, environmental sustainability, cultural awareness and aesthetic judgment.