Multicultural
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Major roles and responsibilities of the Multicultural Development Office include:

• Advise the President and Executive Team regarding systems and strategies for building, promoting, and maintaining an inclusive and diverse college environment.
• Provide strong and creative leadership for campus-wide alignment with the college's diversity action plan.
• Build and support partnerships and develop strategic support for college-wide diversity goals.
• Provide leadership to the campus community and surrounding communities with multicultural issues and the recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations.
• Develop and implement district-wide awareness and competency training in the areas of cultural and gender diversity, sexual discrimination and harassment, affirmative action and equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination.
• Provide strong support and leadership to the college's efforts to develop and maintain an educational and work environment which respects and values individual differences.
• Work collaboratively to assist in creating and promoting a consistently welcoming, supportive, and inclusive climate for all students, employees, and visitors.
• Represent the college to the public, private, local, state, regional, and national organizations, agencies, and constituencies, and boards of education members on matters of diversity and multiculturalism.
• Serve as multicultural and diversity resource to faculty, staff, students, community, and professional associations and college committees.

For additional information contact Taylor Marrow at 503.365.4666.

"So many windmills, so few Quixotes."
— John Luján

Diversity Statement

We are a college community enriched by the diversity of our students and staff. Each individual and group has the potential to contribute in our learning environment. Each has dignity. To diminish the dignity of one is to diminish the dignity of us all.

Updated July 27, 2007 by Marketing and Student Recruitment.