Multicultural Leadership Program
Whitworth University’s Multicultural Leadership Program (MLP) is designed to equip community-minded students from Spokane, Tacoma, Yakima and Tri-Cities (and the surrounding areas) to become effective multicultural leaders on campus and in their communities.
The Multicultural Leadership Program seeks emerging student leaders with a passion to live, learn, love and lead across all dimensions of human difference on a campus where more than 50 percent of students are first-generation college students and/or from Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities.
Whitworth will enroll a new cohort of incoming first-year students for the Multicultural Leadership Program each year. MLP scholars will receive the following benefits:
- Pre-college training and summer transition support
- Leadership training and opportunities
- Cohort community
- Coursework in U.S. cultural studies
- Focused preparation for post-college plans
MLP Scholarship
Whitworth will fund MLP scholars with a combination of scholarships, grants and federal loans* for four years that will cover the cost of:
- Tuition
- On-campus housing
- Meal plan of choice
- Mandatory fees
Each MLP scholar is unique. Whitworth’s commitment is to ensure each scholar maximizes institutional, federal and state grants, scholarships and loans to be able to afford all four years of college.
*If eligible for federal loans
Students from Spokane, Tacoma, Yakima and Tri-Cities (and the surrounding areas) who are admitted to Whitworth as a first-year student with a cumulative, weighted high school GPA of at least a 3.0 and who qualify for the state's College Bound Scholarship will automatically be invited to apply for the Multicultural Leadership Program. Semifinalists will be chosen by early March and invited to complete the final stage of the selection process. The semifinalists who best demonstrate MLP values – identity development, active leadership, community orientation, academic excellence, and equity and justice – will be selected for the incoming cohort.
Click here to learn more about the MLP selection process and timeline.
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