Multicultural Community

The Multicultural Community is a special interest group open to all first-year students interested in learning about their own culture and other cultures, with a focus on intentional and deep communication and understanding among students of diverse backgrounds and identities. The community meaningfully engages in social justice education and restorativejustice practices within their community and thinks critically about how these values manifest in the residential community, on campus and globally. The community is designed to help students personally and academically succeed as a Golden Bear by connecting residents to campus and academic resources. Through group discussions on multiculturalism, diversity, and social justice to exploration of your identity, students will gain an expanded worldview— thus creating a welcoming and fun living space for all.

Community Goals:

1.) Create a safer space for a diverse group of students to come together, create a community where students can support one another in their academic and personal growth

2.) Foster increased understandings of one’s own and others’ beliefs, ideas, identities, behaviors, and understandings of social issues

3.) Facilitate all residents’ success on and off campus

4.) Examine the dynamics of current power structures and how life experiences are shaped by factors at the individual, societal, institutional and structural levels

5.) Develop an understanding of social justice and the skills to become an engaged community member

6.) Partner with the KU FDI program (The Fredrick Douglass Institute at Kutztown University is committed to developing understandings of equity, diversity, and inclusion among faculty, staff, and students.)

Advisors:

Jerry Schearer, Senior Associate Dean & Chief Diversity Officer

Dr. Amber Pabon, Frederick Douglass Institute Director & Associate Professor