About The BAC
Diversity
PRESIDENTIAL VISION FOR DIVERSITY
Excellent design integrates diverse skills and problem solving approaches to meeting client needs. Combining divergent ways of thinking, non-traditional approaches to solving problems, multi-cultural awareness, sensitivity to the needs of persons who may be different from ourselves, tolerance of ideas we may not initially understand, and openness to new ways of addressing needs is essential to acheiving thoughtful, creative, innovative and client-centered design. Through multiple design disciplines, and through our insistence on learning from diverse ways of approaching design solutions, the Boston Architectural College expresses its fundamental commitment to being an open and welcoming community. We strive to effectively serve diverse clients in a multi-cultural world.
— Dr. Theodore C. Landsmark, President
As the largest independent, multi-disciplinary college of spatial design in the United States, the Boston Architectural College (BAC) has opportunities to influence the future viability of the design professions. Sustainable design professions require diversity and inclusivity in their approaches to serving clients. The BAC strives to increase diversity among those who study, work, teach and practice Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture and a wide range of allied fields.
The BAC’s Diversity Vision is to be a vibrant, inclusive learning community where all members are respected, welcomed and enabled to thrive. As this vision is realized, the College will reflect diversity in its student body, faculty, curriculum, Practice learning, and in the ways that we teach and learn.
This plan sets forth specific initiatives aimed at fulfilling the College’s mission: to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities. This plan also sets forth current diversity efforts at the BAC, and a three-year action plan focused on five major objectives to increase diversity throughout the BAC community. These objectives encompass the establishment and review of policies; programming and evaluation; and the creation of effective partnerships to accomplish the plan’s goals.
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