True diversity is achieved when all barriers to full and equal participation are eliminated.
The MCDB Diversity Program thus seeks to identify and constructively deal with the individual needs of all members of the MCDB Community. Such needs may reflect aspects of an individual's background and current circumstances, including but not limited to, family educational experience and expectations, family and personal finances, quality of schools previously attended, physical or learning disabilities, geographic origins, ethnicity, gender and sexual preference. MCDB strongly supports the goal of full participation of all such groups in higher education. However, it is our view that every student, whether a member of an identified group or not, has unique background experiences, goals, and problems. We therefore make it our policy to work with each student as an individual in developing a degree plan and finding solutions that are appropriate.