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Dr. Pete Menjares,Chair of the Education Departmentat Biola University, facilitated the plenary session on campus climate at the Presidential Symposium on Intercultural Competencies at Calvin College. The session explored the topic of campus climate and what makes it welcoming to students and faculty of color and international students.Other topics discussed included:

• Obstacles encountered by minorities on predominantly white campuses based on research being conducted at several Christian colleges by Dr. Menjares
• The idea of a campus audit and the potential benefits for the formal assessment of diversity at CCCU institutions
• Campus climate and those responsible for making it welcoming
• Usinga fewwords to describing one's campus climate
• Why students of color and white students experience campus climate so differently
• Measuring theimportance of campus climate to the retention and success of students of color