Our Beloved Community 2020, our first virtual venture in the program’s 9-year history, was a resounding success! We connected with students from Pennsylvania to California, from Ukraine to Beijing, from Texas to Massachusetts through 15 in-depth and discussion-based sessions, including:
View the schedule for the November 7,2020 Our Beloved Community Program
We look forward to hosting our 10th Annual Our Beloved Community Social Justice Symposium in fall 2021. In the meantime, if you have questions about diversity recruitment or social justice issues at Lafayette College, contact Cristina Usino at usinoc@lafayette.edu.
Fondly referred to as OBC on the Lafayette campus, Our Beloved Community is named for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s global vision in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. For Dr. King, The Beloved Community was not a lofty utopian goal, instead it is a realistic, achievable goal that can be attained by a critical mass of people committed to and trained in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence. Lafayette College’s Our Beloved Community (OBC) symposium is a call to action to become that critical mass. OBC is an offering from our renowned faculty, staff and student leaders to take critical steps to enact global social change. Join our movement.
OBC is just one way in which we look to cultivate a vibrant community of students who hail from varied backgrounds, experiences and interests. Our TAG program, Together from Application to Graduation, provides support to students from the moment they consider applying to Lafayette, to graduation and beyond. We want all students to be successful scholars, contributors, friends and members of the Lafayette community. Read more about some of those initiatives.