The Office of Multicultural Affairs Welcomes You!

The Office of Multicultural Affairs is responsible for leading the college efforts toward the advancement of a coherent and substantive commitment to diversity and multicultural perspectives. The office devotes considerable time to working with students, faculty, and staff to affect systemic change by coordinating campuswide efforts that emphasize teaching and supporting students to prepare them for full engagement in our increasingly complex and diverse world. This is done through a range of responsibilities and activities that contribute to a rich, supportive, and respectful campus in which similarities and differences across cultures are sought, welcomed, and incorporated to deepen learning.

Our functions and services include the following:

• Provide academic, social, and cultural support to students from underrepresented communities
• Serve as a resource to members of the Lewis & Clark community 
• Help advise student of color organizations: Black Student Union, Gente Latina Unida, Native Student Union, Asian Student Union, Hawai’i Club, South Asian Club, United Sexualities, Jewish Student Union, and other underrepresented student organizations
• Coordinate the Lewis & Clark Intercultural Network for Connecting Students (LINCS) program
• Assist in the organization of the Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium, the Martin Luther King (MLK) celebration and many other campus programs
• Collaborate with the admissions office on recruitment activities designed to increase diversity on campus
• Serve as a connection to the local Portland communities for Lewis & Clark faculty, staff and students

The Lewis and Clark Intercultural Network for Connecting Students (LINCS) Program: The office, in collaboration with Student Support Services, coordinates an intercultural network of students designed to facilitate the adjustments new students face in college life. For more information or to sign up, click here or contact email hconrad@lclark.edu.

LINCS Peer Mentors Fiona '12 and Nicole '11

Programs and Activities

In addition to the LINCS Program, the office coordinates and supports several educational, cultural, and social activities that work toward greater understanding of diversity.We work collaboratively with the campus community to bring timely and diverse programs to campus.  If you have an idea for an event on campus, let us know.  We would love to partner with you! For more information please contact our office multicultural@lclark.edu.

New Student Recruitment

The Office of Admissions develops recruitment programs that focus on students of underrepresented communities. For more information contact the Office of Admissions or e-mail Adrienne Enriquez, Director of Multicultural Recruitment.

Are you a new student interested in visiting campus?  Are you a LEADer in your community?  Do you EXPLORE your surroundings?  Do you ACHIEVE your goals?  Are you ready to DISCOVER Lewis & Clark College?  Consider applying to the College's 2nd Annual L.E.A.D. Program, taking place on campus this fall, October 18-20, 2009.  Applications are due Friday, September 11. 

Advising

The office serves in an advisory capacity for student organizations focusing on issues of community, diversity, and understanding, while assisting faculty and administrators with multicultural program development and individual student issues. For more information, please contact our office.

The Educational Benefits of Diversity

At its best, liberal education empowers students intellectually to understand the complex geopolitical, socioeconomic, ethical, and technological challenges confronting humanity at this juncture in history. To read more of this statement, please visit: http://www.lclark.edu/dept/about/diversity.html

To schedule an appointment contact:

Latricia Brand
Associate Dean of Students & Director of Multicultural Affairs            503.768.7743
lbrand@lclark.edu

Shavette McGhee
Associate Director of Multicultural Affairs
503-768-7051
smcghee@lclark.edu

Hanako Conrad
Intern
503-768-7370
hconrad@lclark.edu

On Campus?  Then stop by!  We're located on the 3rd floor of Templeton Student Center.

Office of Multicultural Affairs, MSC 126
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, Oregon 97219

Fax: 503-768-7301

Email: multicultural@lclark.edu

Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Multicultural Resource Guide to Portland (PDF 1MB)

"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. "

- Barack Obama.