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Our Programs emphasize cross-cultural competence, enabling students to be useful members of a global society. Providing service to students and faculty consistent with the mission of Emory University is an important objective of the office. Consulting and outreach services are available for students, faculty, staff, academic departments, parents, and community groups.

What We Do

African American Heritage Celebration
Asian American Heritage Celebration
Freshmen Crossroads Retreat l Website
Cultural Sensitivity Workshops
Diversity Training
Excellence Awards
Faculty Mentor Awards
Holiday Party
Issues Troupe l Website
Latino American Heritage Celebration
Latino Task Force
Martin Luther King Jr. Reception
Mentoring for Excellence
MORE (Multicultural Outreach & Resources at Emory) l Website
Multicultural Council l Website
Multicultural Orientation Reception
Sustained Dialogue l Website
Unity Month l Website

To visit the Crossroads Retreat Site, click the image.

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.

For more information about the Issues Troupe, click the image.

Issues Troupe

The primary mission of Emory 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.

Click the image to visit the MORE website.

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.

For more inforation about SDCN Emory, click the image.

Sustained Dialogue

Sustained Dialogue is a systematic, prolonged dialogue among small groups of citizens committed to changing conflicting relationships, ending conflict, and building peace. Sustained Dialogue is also a method/club/group/process that can improve strained relationships on our campus affecting change at the individual level through personal growth and understanding, and at the group level, through dialogue and joint social action.
It combines talking about issues of misunderstanding and conflict, such as race relations, with finding solutions and putting them into practice. It has the ability to change relationships by giving students an opportunity to “create unlikely friendships in unlikely places” by making time not only to convey their own stories and opinions, but also to understand the different perspectives and experiences of their peers.

Click the image for more information about Unity Month.

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.