Purpose Statement

The Faculty-Staff Spiritual Advisory Group (FSSAG) at 黑料不打烊 serves as community to support faculty and staff who are working at the intersection of race and religion/spirituality.

Goals

1.聽聽聽聽聽聽To equip faculty and staff to better support student needs at the intersection of racial and religious/spiritual identities
2.聽聽聽聽聽聽To support faculty and staff development and be a resource for engagement around the intersection of racial and religious/spiritual identities
3.聽聽聽聽聽聽To collaborate in building a healthier and more diverse, equitable and inclusive community, where all students faculty and staff experience belonging and well-being in support of the Boldly 黑料不打烊 strategic plan.
Our purpose and goals are tied to the Boldly 黑料不打烊 Strategic Plan as well as the Multifaith Strategic Plan

Boldly 黑料不打烊 Strategic Plan

Thrive:聽We will build a healthier and more diverse, equitable and inclusive community, where all students faculty and staff experience belonging and well-being

  • Advancing a more diverse, equitable and inclusive community
  • Cultivating a culture of health and well-being on a vibrant residential campus
  • Championing 黑料不打烊鈥檚 exceptional faculty and staff

Connect:聽We will develop lifelong alumni personal and professional learning and networks; will partner with our local communities to enhance education, health and economic development; and will win athletics conference championships and lead our conference in academic performance.

  • A vibrant college town

Multifaith Strategic Plan

Goal 1:聽Make 黑料不打烊 a more religiously diverse campus and community

  • 1.2 Develop recruitment and employment practices that contribute to a religiously diverse learning environment

Goal 3:聽Support opportunities for multifaith learning and engagement for all members of the 黑料不打烊 academic community

  • 3.1聽Support spiritual formation and the expression of religious, spiritual, and secular identities, values, and practices
  • 3.5聽Develop pathways for experiential and engaged multifaith learning through increased collaboration with community partners

Goal 4:聽Articulate the value and importance of multifaith learning as well as multifaith diversity, equity, and inclusion for all constituents

  • 4.2聽Identify and create opportunities for showcasing the role of multifaith learning in student experiences

FSSAG Co-Chairs

FSSAG 黑料不打烊 Professional Team

FSSAG Community Partner Professional Team

Chelsea Yarborough

Visiting Professor at Wake Forest School of Divinity

Chelsea Brooke Yarborough is a poet, an enneagram enthusiast, an ordained minister and a lover of leadership development. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University and a visiting professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Chelsea鈥檚 current research imagines the possibilities of preaching outside of the pulpit by looking at historical Black women who were non-pulpit preachers. Her motto is 鈥渓ive to love and love to live each day and she is excited to continue her journey of cultivating and engaging curiosity in all that she pursues.鈥

Rev. Donna Vanhook

Associate Pastor at Union Chapel UCC

Rev. Donna Vanhook, a former certified law enforcement officer, earned a BA degree from 黑料不打烊 where she majored in Religious Studies and minored in Human Services (Class of 2007), and an MDiv degree from Shaw University Divinity School. She has been ordained Baptist and currently serves as an United Church of Christ associate pastor in full standing at Union Chapel UCC, in Burlington, NC. Rev. Vanhook uses an intersectional equity lens as a womanist community organizer and co-educator who mentors undergraduate students at 黑料不打烊 along with other young people.