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Give to the CMA! Your generous contribution allows us to continue to do community-minded, coalition-building, multicultural-centered work on Duke’s campus. Have more questions about what this work looks like? Email dcma@duke.edu Make your donation, here! MISSION The Center for Multicultural Affairs is committed to creating a more equitable and inclusive campus environment. We embolden students to examine the intersections of identity, to think critically about diversity, social justice, and identity formation to utilize their unique and collective voices to enact positive change. VISION We envision a campus community where all members are safe and able to live in full authenticity. VALUES Advocacy: We believe that…
Welcome to the Duke University Women’s Center! The Women’s Center serves as an inclusive and safe space on campus for women and allies. As a feminist/womanist and socially just space, the Women’s Center provides students with resources and education on intersectionality and gender equity as well as a positive, supporting environment. Please visit our staff and the space at the Bryan Center in Suite 101 or follow us on Instagram and Facebook @dukewomenscenter to see if you would like to get involved! We look forward to working with you and becoming an integral part of your experience at Duke! -Krystal George, Director Resources…
We value the broad spectrum of human experience. We work continuously to create an open atmosphere with meaningful opportunities to learn for all students, faculty and staff. Our mission To support the University’s commitment to respecting personal identities of each community member. To suggest avenues for recourse for individuals or groups found responsible for engaging in bias-related incidents. To make recommendations for educational interventions to help the larger University community deepen awareness and fluency on the diversity of human experience. To make recommendations for avenues of support for specific communities that may be impacted by bias-related incidents. To provide recommendations…
We value the broad spectrum of human experience. We work continuously to create an open atmosphere with meaningful opportunities to learn for all students, faculty and staff. Our mission To support the University’s commitment to respecting personal identities of each community member. To suggest avenues for recourse for individuals or groups found responsible for engaging in bias-related incidents. To make recommendations for educational interventions to help the larger University community deepen awareness and fluency on the diversity of human experience. To make recommendations for avenues of support for specific communities that may be impacted by bias-related incidents. To provide recommendations…
Reproductive Justice Conference One of the Women’s Center’s signature programs, the Reproductive Justice Conference (RJC) is an annual event hosted every March as part of our Women’s History Month programming. We use SisterSong’s definition of reproductive justice, described as “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.” From access to menstrual products and reproductive health care, to abortion rights and alternative birth options, reproductive justice is a wide umbrella under which many feminist, womanist, and social justice projects fall.The Duke Reproductive Justice Conference is our way…
The Story of the Freeman Center The story of a Jewish student center on Duke’s campus began in 1986 with Duke alumnus, Gil Scharf T’70, P’16, who sought a space for Jewish students, faculty and staff to call home. With the support of Duke’s then-President, H. Keith H. Brodie, and many other members of administration, staff, and faculty, a public announcement was made to build a center that would serve as a hub for Duke’s Jewish life. Learn more about the beginnings of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life on our blog by clicking below: The Story of the Freeman…
Linda Capers Director She/Her Linda serves as Director of the Center for Multicultural Affairs. She provides oversight of our orientation programs, Organic & Physics learning communities, our annual signature program, Unity Through Diversity (UTD). She also advises student organizations which keeps her connected to the way students experience leadership development. As a former classroom teacher, Linda finds that working in higher ed has been the perfect venue to expand her interests in student development. The endless opportunities to view students’ unique and diverse experiences through a multicultural lens has been a remarkable career experience. Professional interests include but are not limited…
Center for Multicultural Affairs Land Acknowledgement The Center for Multicultural Affairs acknowledges that the land our center and the greater university occupies are the ancestral lands of the Shakori, Eno and Tuscarora people. Today, North Carolina recognizes 8 tribes: Coharie, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Saponi, Haliwa Saponi, Waccamaw Siouan, Sappony, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee. We recognize those peoples for whom these were ancestral lands as well as the many Indigenous people who live and work in the region today. Pronunciation Guide shuh • cori EE-noh TUSK-UH-RAW-RUH co-HAIR-ee LUM-bee ma-HAIR-in OAK-uh-NEE-chee suh-PONY HA-lih-WAH suh-PONY WOK-uh-ma Soo-uhn suh-PONY cheh·ruh·kee
The Center for Multicultural Affairs serves as a resource for all students, with a focus on all students of color, on campus. The CMA is committed to expanding and supporting our Duke community through programmatic, advising, support, and engagement efforts informed through an inclusive and socially-just lens. The Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) promotes community engagement, multicultural education, leadership development, social justice education , and identity exploration among the student population. The Center for Multicultural Affairs staff are located in the Bryan Student Center, Suite 101. We share the suite space with the Women’s Center and Student Involvement and Leadership. …