Academics

The Black Cultural Center is a leader in achieving the college’s mission of interracial understanding. We operate in the spirit of the college’s motto: “God has made of One Blood all Peoples of the Earth” (Acts 17:26).

The CGWC fosters communication around Berea College’s Fifth Great Commitment: To assert the kinship of all people and to provide interracial education with a particular emphasis on understanding and equality among Blacks and whites as a foundation for building community among all peoples of the earth.

The Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service (CELTS) focuses on community service and civic engagement through a variety of ways that include mentoring, tutoring, and social justice advocacy.

Berea College’s Francis and Louise Hutchins Center for International Education (CIE) fosters an understanding of, and respect for, all peoples of the earth. The CIE provides many services to Berea’s current international student population.

Berea’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), brings faculty, staff, and students together with each other and with trained faculty, staff, and student leaders to deepen their confidence, skills, perspectives, and insights as readers, writers, learners, and teachers.

The Appalachian Center strives to stimulate student and scholarly interest in Appalachian Studies. It serves as one of the nation’s information sources to educate others about the region.

The bell hooks center is an inclusive space where historically underrepresented students can come to be as they are, outside of the social scripts that circumscribe their living. The center curates programs, collaborations and events that affirm these students’ sense of self and belonging—on campus and in the world. This work is motivated by bell hooks’ famous insights that “patriarchy has no gender” and that, therefore, “feminism is for everybody.”

The Berea College Forestry Outreach Center is a flexible space where visitors and the community can come together to learn about the Berea College Forest and the natural world that sustains us.