OMD TOMORROW
Opening doors of opportunity
Services offered by the Office of Multicultural Development are being expanded as part of two new entities, The Multicultural Center and The Student Success Center.
Be assured that our successful programs (multicultural student orientation, learning communities, Rethinking Race, peer mentoring, Black Male Summit, etc.) will continue to be available to you. Many of these programs will be expanded in the 2013-14 academic year.
The Multicultural Center will focus on enriched programming for all minority groups; the Student Success Center will focus on academic support programs and services with a multicultural emphasis to strengthen student retention and success.
According to Lee Gill, associate vice president for inclusion and equity/chief diversity officer, “We are opening more doors of opportunity to make The Akron Experience one that fully embraces the spirit of Inclusive Excellence for the entire student body.”
Related:
- Inclusive Excellence at UA
The home of UA's many diversity initiatives on the Web
Office of Multicultural Development
Simmons Hall Room 124
Akron, Ohio 44325-1804
Phone: 330-972-6769
Fax: 330-972-8469
Email: omd@uakron.edu
New home for multicultural
services on the Web
- Four-Phase Advising System (4PAS)
Provides multicultural students with unique, personalized and academic and career-related advising
- Learning Communities
Structured learning experiences for students who take two to four classes as a group, thus promoting the academic and social integration of students of color into the University.
- Multicultural New Student Orientation
ADVANCE is a special two-day orientation includes meeting with current UA students, faculty, and administrators, who help students learn identify and handle the challenges typically encountered in the freshmen year.
- Peer Mentoring Services
Mentoring is a one-on-one relationship between an experienced student and a new first-year student. - Hispanic Outreach
Academic programs and services designed to recruit and retain Hispanic students.
- Scholarship opportunities
Scholarships for students of color who are in high school, in an undergraduate program or in a graduate program.
- African American Male Initiative
"Rising to the Occasion" is a comprehensive recruitment and retention model striving to increase the enrollment and graduation rates of African-American males at UA.
