Student Multicultural Resources on Campus
Cultural Centers - Student Services and Organizations - Academic Departments - Diversity Research and Opportunities - International Resources
Cultural Centers
Students can become involved in cultural activities outside of their courses by visiting a cultural center or joining a club.
Asian American Cultural Center
http://www.odos.uiuc.edu/aacc/
Starting in 2005, the Asian American Cultural Center provides the University of Illinois community with space to gather and share the diverse and rich cultures that are part of the Asian American experience.
Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
http://www.odos.uiuc.edu/aacp/home/
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The African American Cultural Center provides students with workshops and organizational programs such as Black Chorus, Griot Newsletter, Omnimov Dancers, Theater 263, and WBML Radio. Academic credit is offered for some programs.
La Casa Cultural Latina
http://www.odos.uiuc.edu/lacasa/
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La Casa Cultural Latina offers students a strong Peer Mentoring Network, which provides services to new Freshmen, as well as programming events including lectures, dances, workshops, and National Hispanic and Latino Month.
Native American House
http://www.nah.uiuc.edu/
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The Native American House brings together a variety of courses, lectures, conferences and other events for all Illinois students and community members. The Native American House strives to develop interdisciplinary teaching and research, host culturally enriching programs and provide essential student services that highlight the diversity of cultures and histories of Native individuals, communities and nations.
Student Services and Organizations
DRES (Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services)
http://www.disability.uiuc.edu/
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DRES provides a wide range of services to students with documented disabilities - from adapted testing to campus accessibility issues, or assisted living and accessible transportation. Programs and services include the disabled student service fraternity (DSO), driver's training, and adapted varsity sports.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Office
http://www.odos.uiuc.edu/lgbt/
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The Office of LGBT Resources seeks to address homophobia on the campus and to work to make the environment safe and inclusive for all students, faculty, staff and LGBT students, faculty and staff in particular.
Office of Minority Student Affairs (OMSA)
http://www.omsa.uiuc.edu/
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The Office of Minority Student Affairs offers academic and personal counseling, tutoring, help in securing financial aid and finding a campus job, career guidance, computer training and other services for minority students.
Academic Departments
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a diverse number of departments and programs which deal with cultural studies. Each of the programs offer courses, information, and resources for students who wish to learn about a particular culture or area of the world.
- African American Studies and Research Program
- American Indian Studies
- Asian American Studies
- Center for African Studies
- Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
- Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies
- Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Department of French
- Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
- Department of Human and Community Development
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
- English as an International Language
- Gender and Women's Studies
- Latino/Latina Studies Program
- Program in Jewish Culture and Society
- Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
- Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP)
Diversity Research and Opportunities
Through a broad range of research, scholarships, diversity programs, and continual support from the colleges, students are able to receive funding, research and networking opportunities. The following is a list of opportunities that are currently available across the campus:
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) Diversity Programs
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/Academics/Diversity/
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The College of ACES seeks to encourage diversity and multiculturalism among its faculty, staff and student body. To this end, the College has committed itself to increasing the cultural diversity in the undergraduate student body; creating a college environment that values differences among students, faculty and staff; strengthening the human expertise of the food and agricultural sciences through cooperative relationships between ACES departments with other colleges and universities, government agencies and industry; and increasing the number of minority and women faculty and staff.
College of Engineering Diversity Programs and Scholarships
http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/students/diversity/
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The College of Engineering has a number of programs and scholarships designed to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups in engineering. The administration understands the engineering profession's need to increase its representation of African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Native Americans, and women. These program include the Morrill Engineering Program, Women in Engineering Program, Support for Under-Represented Groups in Engineering (SURGE) Fellowship Program and the Multi-Cultural Engineering Recruitment for Graduate Education (MERGE) Program.
Diversity Research Laboratory
http://www.diversitylab.uiuc.edu/index.html
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The Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois has established the Diversity Research Laboratory (DRL) to facilitate, produce and disseminate multidisciplinary research dedicated to understanding leisure as it relates to the richness that diversity brings to community life. Research projects conducted within the laboratory explore the relationships between ethnicity, race, gender issues, aging, disability, lifestyle choices, immigration status and leisure.
Program on Intergroup Relations
http://www.intergrouprelations.uiuc.edu/
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The program on Intergroup Relations (PIR) promotes dialogue between students from different social and cultural backgrounds. The program provides students with a proactive educational experience that promotes the exploration of group identities and open discussion of social justice issues such as discrimination based on class, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.
School or Architecture on Diversity and Social Equity
http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/about/diversity/
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The School of Architecture, through its policies and programs, strives to promote diversity and social equity. The School demonstrates this commitment through activities in teaching, research and public engagement, ongoing support for student and alumni organizations and special programs for minority students.
Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/eep/srop/
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Through the Graduate College, the SROP program provides undergraduate students from populations underrepresented in graduate study at Illinois with an opportunity to explore careers in research. The many activities offered through the Summer Research Opportunities Program will afford participants an opportunity to establish important relationships with faculty in their respective fields of study, conduct graduate-level research under the supervision of a University of Illinois renowned faculty member, become acquainted with the culture of graduate school, and to learn what is needed and expected of them as graduate students in their discipline at the University of Illinois.
International Resources
Students have the opportunity to study abroad, take classes on international topics, and participate in activities which have an international focus through the following centers and programs.
Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society
http://cdms.ds.uiuc.edu/default.htm
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The Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society is a unique research institute organized around a commitment to the practice of democracy and equality within a changing multiracial U.S. society. The Center aims to promote multiple and interdisciplinary approaches for examining the organization of society relating to the racially and ethnically diverse populations in the U.S. at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as well as to gender, class, age, sexuality, disability, religion, and citizenship status. The Center also supports related studies of a transnational and international comparative nature.
Center for Global Studies
http://www.cgs.uiuc.edu/
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The Center for Global Studies works together with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Institute of Communications Research, the University of Illinois Library, and the Mortensen Center to promote International Library Programs through continued support of research and instruction with a global perspective in the information and communication sciences.
European Union Center
http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/eu/index.html
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The Center for Global Studies works together with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Institute of Communications Research, the University of Illinois Library, and the Mortensen Center to promote International Library Programs through continued support of research and instruction with a global perspective in the information and communication sciences.
International Program and Studies
http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/
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International Programs and Studies (IPS) coordinates, promotes, and supports international activities on campus. Through its various offices and units, IPS fosters international expertise by facilitating faculty and student research abroad, coordinating international exchanges and study abroad, supporting international scholarly activities on campus, and leading public engagement in international affairs.
International Student and Scholar Services
http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/isss/
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International Student and Scholar Services is committed to providing culturally sensitive services of the highest quality. We strive to create an environment that is conducive to a successful educational and personal experience through orientation, advising, programs and outreach. We are the campus office devoted to international students, scholars, faculty and staff.
Study Abroad Office
https://www.studyabroad.uiuc.edu/
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The Study Abroad Office provides and facilitates a wide range of study and education opportunities abroad, consonant in breadth and quality with on-campus Illinois curricula. The Office offers opportunities for short or long duration according to curricular objectives and in consideration of students' co-curricular and personal obligations.
