Emory University
Tier2-3: Student Training Opportunities

The Emory Facilitator Network (EFN) is the umbrella structure for programs intended to encourage this safe dialogue, and enhance our campus' capacity for diversity, equity and inclusion. The Office of Multicultural Programs and Services provides consulting and outreach services to students, faculty, staff, academic departments, parents, and community groups that emphasize cross-cultural competence. Programs and services include Cultural Sensitivity Workshops, Diversity Training, Issues Troupe, Latino Task Force, and Sustained Dialogue. The MORE Program selects self-motivated upperclassman students and provides them with the tools and training necessary to mentor a first year student. New students are matched with a mentor to receive the proper counseling, guidance, and attention necessary to address all of his or her needs while keeping a much more relaxed, informal and fun platform of interaction. Crossroads is a retreat for Emory first year students. It is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services (OMPS), yet is organized and run completely by students. It is held in two sessions: Crossroads 1 (X1) and Crossroads 2 (X2). X1 occurs right before orientation begins in August, and X2 during fall break. Students may attend one of the two sessions. This year will be the retreat’s 7th year running. The retreat is designed to help first year students adjust to college life. It also focuses on community building and team building. The NCBI/Emory Campus Affiliate provides diversity workshops that address discrimination and inter-group conflict. NCBI/Emory consults with department heads and/or supervisors to develop customized workshops based on department needs. These workshops can vary in length from half-hour meetings to day-long workshops and are guided by several core principles and key insights. CORE PRINCIPLES: * Every issue counts. NCBI/Emory addresses a wide range of diversity issues in the course of its programs, including race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, age, sexual orientation and religion. * Personal stories change attitudes. Listening to accounts of discrimination can impart a new perspective on how devastating the impact and move people with prejudicial attitudes to become allies of those they have mistreated. * Eliminating mistreatment means ending "leadership oppression." Leaders often experience isolation and a lack of support, sometimes bordering on abuse. NCBI/Emory trains leaders to handle conflict and respond effectively to attacking behaviors. The Transforming Community Project seeks to mobilize individuals in every sector of Emory University in a reflective, fact-driven engagement with the University’s history and current experiences of race, gender, sexuality and other forms of human difference at Emory and beyond. These activities provide opportunities to develop new, concrete strategies to transform the University. All members of the Emory community (staff, faculty, students and alumni) are invited to participate in Community Dialogues, to develop research projects related to Emory’s history and current experiences around diversity, and to use these dialogue and research experiences to effect change in the community at large.