Institutional Diversity Signature Programs
The Multicultural Lecture Series: This endowed lecture series will focus on various aspect of multiculturalism, including ethnic, national, subregional or regional group represented at the University of West Georgia.The Multicultural Roundtable Series: To facilitate discussions on diverse cultural issues by panels of individuals drawn from diverse cultural groups.
The Multicultural Conversation Series: Provides a forum where various members of the University of West Georgia Community can share their cultural backgrounds and experiences. This takes place in an informal setting.
Multicultural Book Discussion: Designed to promote intercultural communication, education and awareness through the reading of various books about the cultures that are represented at the University of West Georgia.
Multicultural Seminars and Workshops: Designed to help promote intercultural education by providing a setting in which the various participants can learn and study about a particular issue related to multiculturalism in some detail.
Multicultural Community Partnership Initiative: The purpose of this program is to partner with groups in the local and metro Atlanta areas to expose students and others to diverse cultural experiences.
Multicultural Festivals: The Office of Institutional Diversity in collaboration with various offices and groups at the University of West Georgia will host “The Multicultural Festival”. This event will be an outdoors activity consisting of cultural displays, entertainment and food, and vendors from the surrounding communities .
Multicultural Mentoring Program: The purpose of this program is to attempt to match minority students with minority faculty mentors.
The Multicultural Tours: Tours will expose students to sites of multicultural importance in the local communities, state wide and nationally.
Fair Trade Coffee Tasting: Fair Trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries promote sustainability. Did you know the average consumption of coffee in the US is 3.1 cups a day? The Office of Institutional Diversity will host yearly in November, a coffee tasting event to educate the university community about the Fair Trade coffee industry.
Mix It Up Lunch Challenge: In November, The Office of Institutional Diversity will co-sponsor the annual "Mix It Up at Lunch Challenge!" This event was initiated November 2002, by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) through its activism center, Tolerance.org. It is dedicated to dismantling bigotry, valuing diversity, and promoting understanding and acceptance.
Native American Presentation and Display (NAPA): The office of Institutional Diversity will host the Native American Preservation Association (Rome, Georgia), yearly in November. NAPA is a non-profit charitable and educational organization whose purpose is to promote public interest in and understanding Native American history, culture, and tradition. The Association will make a presentation and display Native American artifacts.
