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Signature Programs

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Freshmen Crossroads Retreat

Freshmen Crossroads is a free retreat held for incoming freshman of any racial or ethnic background (Caucasian, Black, African American, Asian, Latino/a, Hispanic, Multi-racial, International, EVERYONE!), one week prior to their arrival on Emory’s campus. Through a variety of fun-filled and exciting activities students will have the opportunity to unite, interact, form bonds with one another, and explore their differences as well as their similarities. We are excited about the opportunity to get to know you, explore issues of diversity, challenge you with a ROPES course, and enjoy the beautiful grounds of the Georgia FFA retreat center. Through dramatic role-play and barrier breaking activities, freshman students will have the chance to come together in their common journey toward a successful freshman year at Emory University. Participants will ultimately realize that although they come from different paths, their destination is the same: UNITY.

M.O.R.E Mentoring Program

The utilization of shared knowledge, beliefs, and experiences is a powerful tool in helping a new student feel comfortable in his or her new Emory environment. One person is all it takes to help a first year student connect with a community, which is crucial to succeeding both academically and socially. MORE (Multicultural Outreach and Resources at Emory), is an exciting program designed to assist freshman students with their transition to college life. Each incoming student who chooses to enroll in the MORE Program will be paired with an upper-class student-mentor who will guide his or her first steps into Emory. The MORE Program starts working for new students before they even arrive on campus as contact begins during the summer. In addition, the student will belong to a “family” made up of other freshmen-mentor pairs. These families participate in a variety of programs and activities! From this point on, both the Mentor and the new student will develop a special relationship unique only to the MORE Program.We extend to you the invitation to participate in this remarkable program.

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Unity Month Celebration

The Office of Multicultural Programs and Services seeks to sensitize the entire Emory University community to the diversity that exists within our institution. Unity Celebration Month, the month of November, is an opportunity for all members of the Emory Community to celebrate the unity we share as a community composed of many different peoples. Many events and activities will be sponsored for and with students, staff, faculty and administrators in this effort. This celebration is a tangible manifestation of the thoughts and visions shared by members of our community. We talk about the “Emory Family,” but have few opportunities to show our affiliation and affection for the people who make up this family.

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Issues Troupe

The primary mission of Em ory

University’s Issues Troupe is to use

original, interactive theater as a tool

to raise awareness and stimulate

dialogue around a variety of social

issues. For the last four years, the

Troupe has kicked off freshman

orientation’s Best of Show with cutting

-edge original short plays about bias and discrimination on Emory’s campus.
Another annual project is the Charter Celebration production. Each year a play written by an Emory student or faculty member is chosen, and is performed by Issues Troupe as part of the Founders Week festivities.

In 2005 actors from the Issues Troupe worked as a team writing and performing in four short i-movies created for freshman FAME orientation groups. The movies explore issues including unwanted sexual experience, suicide, substance abuse and diversity.
In the fall of 2007 a new initiative, Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Race and Difference, was approved at Emory. With this initiative, the Troupe will present theater-based workshops throughout the year to groups of 20-30 students focused on race, bias, and difference of all kinds. The actors will create specialized scenarios that will serve to promote dialogue among participating students, and throughout the campus at large.

The Issues Troupe is a sponsored program of the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services, and is directed by Ken Hornbeck.

Speak Up: Find Your Voice

Speak Up is about students coming together in small groups and talking. SU gives them a place to dialogue, a place to act, a place to initiate change. The groups, comprised of 10-13 undergraduate students and 2-3 trained student moderators, meet every other week over refreshments to discuss contemporary, local and global issues, including politics, religion, and race relations. The participants are from different ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, racial, and sexual orientation backgrounds, and this diversity of experience and opinion makes the dialogue rich.

The topics and direction of the dialogues are 100% up to the students and moderators. Speak Up is about changing Emory's atmosphere to make new connections; it is a method; it is a process. SU is talk with a goal..to improve student relationships on Emory's campus by creating bonds between students that would normally never form.

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