Center for Multicultural Life
We bring together people of varying experiences and perspectives to learn and grow, with the creative friction generated in contact with difference by:
- Creating a home away from home for students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented at Bowdoin (specifically first generation students, students of racial and ethnic minorities, and low income students); and
- Engaging students of all backgrounds in the diversity of our campus community, preparing them to contribute to a world in flux as culturally competent leaders.
Focus Areas
Support: Assist students of color, international students, first generation students, and low income students as they transition to Bowdoin and navigate their college experience.
Education and Awareness: Programming that seeks to bring attention to usually unacknowledged and/or marginalized issues that groups want to bring to the forefront of community discourse. This programming is usually accomplished through discussion, lectures, film screenings, and attending symposiums or conferences.
Social Justice: Commitment to fostering discourse designed to effect positive change by challenging injustice such as social inequities, bias, prejudice, classism, racism, and other forms of oppression.
Community Building and Social Interaction: Facilitate programming and activities that celebrate and share the rich cultures of the students, staff and faculty that make up our community. We also look to foster cross-cultural interactions that seek to build bridges between people of different backgrounds.
Leadership: Provide programming and training opportunities that seeks to develop the skills necessary to lead in diverse communities.