Our Mission
Diversity & Cultural Engagement is a hub for students to co-design equity-centered opportunities to engage in identity development and explorations, to elevate their sense of mattering, and to advocate for community(ies) needs.
To contextualize our mission:
- As a hub we’re a resource and not the resource, and the work takes a collective effort across campus.
- To design is to be generative, intentional, and to recognize the need.
- Opportunities are found in physical spaces and programs. This is where identity affirming community and belonging happens.
- Feeling mattered should be beyond a designated space. Mattering is anywhere and everywhere through interdependent ways. Feeling mattered in different spaces in different ways.
- Cultural engagement is both self-reflection (inner work) and collective action (outer work). As a collective we can elevate one’s voice for the greater good.
Our Vision
We envision a campus where possibilities are transformed into realities, where curiosities have no end, and where we are the designers of our future.
To contextualize our vision:
- The Cultural Resource Centers were once an idea. Then a possibility. And now a reality.
- Curiosity incites learning. Growth. Change. Repeat.
- The future is not a linear path. Problems arise in all aspects of life. Designers seek to do better and design a better way.
The Cultural Resource Centers at Oregon State University stem from student activism in response to systemic institutional and national discrimination. The roots of social change dig deep through history and this timeline was created to highlight some of the key moments that created that change.
Please do note that this is not intended as a complete picture and we recognize that key events may be missing.
Please also note that this timeline's focus was on moments of social change and not necessarily on moments of trauma that may severely impact individuals upon viewing or remembering those events.
DCE Timeline
For feedback, questions, or thoughts, please feel free to contact: [email protected]
Credits
- Content
- Dr. Luhui Whitebear
- Tamara Lash, MEd
- Graphic
- Sergio Valenciano
- Timeline PDF