About

 

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

 

OUR GOALS

  • Students will experience a sense of interdependence within and across communities
  • Students will co-design spaces and programs for generative curiosities and inquiries
  • Students will learn and develop wayfinding skills towards being future read

OUR PURPOSE

Diversity & Cultural Engagement is a connecting hub of identity affirming community and belonging. We provide::

  • Cultural connections
  • Cultural resource centers that are soft places to land and foster possibilities 
  • Transformation through learning, leadership and relationships