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SERVICES AND PROGRAMS
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DIVERSITY AND CULTURAL SENSITIVITY |
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EMPOWER
This group provides a platform for students to challenge
stereotypes, to create dialogue about similarities and
differences, and to promote cross-cultural awareness and
understanding. If you would like to
have EMPOWER visit your class or meeting, please submit a
request using the Request Presentation link under
Diversity Training. Please make a note in the Special
Requests/Additional Comments field indicating that you would
like EMPOWER to make the visit.
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DIVERSITY TRAINING
This service is coordinated by OMSA to provide student
organizations, faculty and staff with the opportunity to select
or design a presentation that meets your specific needs on
diversity awareness and multicultural issues. If you are
interested in this service, please select the link below where
you will be directed to fill out the online request form. We
will contact you within 5 business days. All requests must be
received 2 weeks prior to date of presentation.
REQUEST PRESENTATION
- Celebration of Excellence (Honors Night)
This program is held each spring to recognize students of
color who have excelled academically, in leadership roles, or in
campus and community service areas.
- African American Male Institute
The African American Male Institute seeks to motivate and
empower African American males to assume roles of leadership and
expose participants to proven strategies for creating greater
professional and personal success by promoting academic
excellence through mentorship, workshops/seminars, and focus
groups.
- Minority Student Welcome
An annual welcome for all incoming freshmen students of
color, Minority Welcome gives these students the opportunity to
meet one another, to meet the leaders of multicultural student
organizations, and to interact with members of the faculty and
administration.
- Minority Assistant Peer Team (M.A.P.P.)
Designed to assist freshmen of color in their transition
to USC by providing them with a trained peer counselor for their
critical first semester, the program works diligently to establish
positive networks for the student's matriculation--academically,
socially, and culturally.
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