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Center for Inclusive Excellence. Collection of the Center for Inclusive Excellence, 1989-Ongoing. GACA Collection 399. ½ Hollinger box, 1 cassette tape box, 1 oversize folder, and digital media.
ABSTRACT:
The Center for Inclusive Excellence collection contains consultant’s reports regarding Gustavus’ multiracial community, a memo requesting proposals for educational activities which promote diversity, event schedules, committee minutes, and the Diversity Center newsletters. Some materials relate to the office’s previous name: Office of Multicultural Student Programs and Services and Diversity Center.
The mission of the Center for Inclusive Excellence is to provide leadership for positive and equitable change that creates a welcoming and supportive environment for persons historically under-served in American colleges and universities. We partner with faculty, staff, and students to design activities that infuse into college life an acceptance and deep understanding for difference that is morally and socially just.
We achieve this by collaborating with curricular and co-curricular departments to create a learning environment that offers cultural, educational, and mentoring programs for students. We also partner with faculty and staff to effectively support the academic, cultural, and social adjustment of students from various multicultural backgrounds.
*Taken from the CIE website, 16 February 2022 (https://gustavus.edu/diversity/)
The Office of Multicultural Student Programs and the Diversity Center changed its name to the Center for Inclusive Excellence in the fall of 2019.
