The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) is uniquely positioned as a hub and a resource that serves students, staff, and faculty from underrepresented backgrounds, while leading diversity related efforts for the campus community. OMA's three-tiered model is grounded in:
- Support & Advocacy: individualized support on personal, academic, and professional goals & advocacy in culturally affirming ways.
- Education & Awareness: safe spaces and opportunities for dialogue, education, and awareness building that gives voice to all our identities and challenges our traditional ways of thinking and knowing
- Community Building: meaningful partnerships and collaborations that build upon and nurture a caring and inclusive community through service learning initiatives, leadership, knowledge-sharing and dialogue opportunities
Mission
Services
OMA's core service is providing holistic support and advocacy to students utilizing a cross-cultural competency framework. We have a commitment towards advancing social justice and community empowerment, as well as assisting in the development of a campus inclusive of all students, staff, and faculty. We focus on:
- Support, advising, coaching, and advocacy on a variety of topics, needs, and concerns, from personal and cultural to academic and financial
- Student development related topics
- Campus connections for students, faculty, staff, and organizations
- Community building and partnerships across campus to facilitate an inclusive campus culture
Members of the community will:
- Become change agents who strive for creating and equitable and inclusive environment
- Engage in programs, services and initiatives that offer social justice and diversity learning opportunities
- Develop multicultural awareness in preparation to be global thinkers
- Participate in social entrepreneurship and civic engagement to be leaders in their community
- Experience support, mentorship and resources from our office
- Receive academic, professional and personal support