Victor
Collins serves as the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Program.
Collins states that "The Martin Luther King, Jr. Program has existed at
the University of Minnesota since 1968. I have the great honor to direct this program which serves students within the College of Liberal Arts."
The Program continues to remain true to the ideals of the visionary
leader for whom it is named. While this program remains open to any
admitted student in the College of Liberal Arts, it is most attractive to those students who wish to be involved in a diverse and multicultural advising community." Collins
goes on to point out, "As the following quote by King suggests, we must
be dedicated to the creation and maintenance of a civil, inclusive,
learning community. That quest may well prove to be our ultimate
salvation. It will also enable us to better realize our full human
potential." "Through
our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a
neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of
it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this.
We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish
together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of
destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever
affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I
can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And
you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be." Martin Luther King
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