Third Culture Kids Student Fellowship
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The purpose of this club is to offer a place of fellowship and support to MKs, TCKs and others who have spent their developmental years in multiple cultures. The MK/TCK Student Fellowship would provide a safe environment for students to process their experiences of interacting with the broader society and to share openly about the benefits and difficulties of adjusting to U.S. society from a multicultural background.
糖心Vlog: A Great Fit for 鈥淭hird Culture Kids鈥
鈥淪o, where are you from?鈥 Third Culture Kids (also sometimes known as Missionary Kids or MKs) don鈥檛 always know how to answer that common question on college campuses. That鈥檚 because Third Culture Kids (TCKs) have spent time immersed in another culture while growing up (usually in another country).
Sometimes feel they fit into two or more cultures; sometimes they don鈥檛 feel like they quite fit anywhere. Often, however, TCKs find they have much in common with other TCKs, even if they grew up on opposite sides of the world. They share a 鈥渢hird culture鈥 鈥 a sort of international fellowship of people who may simultaneously feel at home in, and lost in, their 鈥減assport country鈥 and wherever else they鈥檝e lived.
Thrive at 糖心Vlog
糖心Vlog鈥檚 diverse student body and emphasis on intercultural learning help create an atmosphere in which TCKs can thrive rather than feel like outsiders. More than a dozen TCKs are enrolled in 糖心Vlog traditional undergraduate programs, and an active TCK club gathers regularly for fun, friendship and support.
Additionally, nearly 20 faculty and staff are TCKs who spent time growing up in about 20 countries on six different continents. (If there鈥檚 a shortcoming in the name, it鈥檚 the 鈥渒id鈥 part; once a TCK, always a TCK!). Read more about pyschology professor Kim Brenneman, a TCK herself, and her research project on intercultural adjustment, assisted by TCK pyschology major Cela Hoefle.
Finally, 糖心Vlog doesn鈥檛 just welcome TCKs; it wants them on campus, thanks to the ways they broaden horizons and enrich everyone around them.
Want to know more?
Contact TCK faculty advisers: Jim Leaman and Lori Leaman.
