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News & Upcoming Events

Current Initiatives

Programming on the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals:

  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases
  • Ensure environmental stability
  • Pursue a global partnership for development

 

Publications and Video Productions:

  • Personal narratives by students on their cultural experiences
  • Stories that create understanding and empathy for the struggles of others

 

Dialogue:

  • Interfaith sessions on shared principles of world religions
  • Issue sessions on topical concern

 

Literary and Art Programs:

  • Café Bergen
  • The Middle Eastern Studies series
  • The Literary Arts series
  • The AfterWord Cultural Arts panel
  • Guest Diversity Artists

 

Educational Tools:

  • “About Face: Turning Away from Hate” kiosk
  • African Art Traveling Exhibitions

High School Outreach:

  • Cultural awareness programs
  • International students visiting local schools

 

Diversity Faculty Scholars

 

Community Engagement

  • Students tutoring on-site
  • Student research and scholarship on local issues

 

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