About Us
Our Mission, Vision, Values
Our mission is to offer a space where students can celebrate culture, find community, and explore identity at CWU. We provide holistic student support, co-curricular programs, cultural celebrations, and educational workshops to cultivate a sense of belonging and community at Central Washington University (CWU) and beyond. Whether you’re looking for community, support, or a place to grow, you are welcome here.
Vision
Holistic Student Support
- The Multicultural Center utilizes a holistic approach to supporting students. Recognizing that each student has a set of unique needs and intersecting identities, we are committed to meeting students as they are and supporting them how they want to be supported, both inside and outside of the classroom. We aim to create spaces that allow students to show up as their full selves.
Identity-Based & Cultural Programs
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The Multicultural Center facilitates identity-based and cultural programs in order to affirm students in their identity development, honor lived experiences, and build supportive communities that will sustain students throughout their time at CWU.
The Multicultural Center collaborates with student organizations and clubs to host a variety of cultural and heritage programs for the campus community.
Workshops
- Our educational workshops are co-facilitated by professional and student staff and are geared towards serving students at CWU. Topics include Equity & Identity, Microaggressions, and Safer Spaces (2LGBTQ+ Focused). Learn more about workshops.
Multicultural Center - Equity & Services Council
- The Multicultural Center works with Associated Students of Central Washington University (ASCWU) to advise the Equity and Services Council (ESC), a council of student organizations that promote diversity, equity, and inclusivity. ESC hosts a range of educational and cultural programming across campus.
Space
- The Multicultural Center provides a living room lounge, conference room (Rm 101), and multipurpose room (Rm 105) open for students and groups to study, hang out, and gather in community. The space includes work stations, computers, a social justice library, and kitchen area. We also have free popcorn every Friday at 11am! Reserve the Multicultural Center.
Our Values
- We commit to building justice and just relationships in our communities.
- We believe that justice is relational (rooted in our interactions and relationships with one another) and requires trust building, vulnerability, and loving accountability.
- We believe that justice requires speaking truth to power. This means courageously confronting those in power, calling out injustices, and demanding change.
- We believe that justice is rooted in liberatory education that calls on us to examine, challenge, and reckon with entrenched power structures, internally and externally.
- We believe that justice requires us to re-imagine and rebuild (PDF) a world with radical community care that prioritizes the healing and repair for oppressed groups.
- We believe that justice is imperfect, emergent, complex, and at times contradictory, and we cannot do it alone.
- We believe that justice cannot be sustained without celebration, joy, and gratitude for the everyday rhythms of our lives.
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Questions? Contact Us.
Multicultural Center
Black Hall 101
Friday 10-5 pm
Mal Stewman (Director)
mstewman@cwu.edu
509-963-2122
Justin Santoli (Program Manager/ESC Advisor)
justin.santoli@cwu.edu
509-963-1651
VACANT (Program Manager)