Muhlenberg College
PA-6: Support for Underrepresented Groups

Muhlenberg has mentoring, counseling, peer support, academic support, and other programs to support underrepresented groups on campus: o Mentoring: career center has connections with alums that are part of underrepresented groups, and holds networking events with them (LGBT, women, people of color, etc.) o Counseling: the counseling center will offer accommodations to students who prefer to open up to one gender or race over another. If a student does not connect with a counselor in Muhlenberg’s counseling center, the counseling center would direct them to a local agency. o Peer Support: We have a mentoring program that is part of our Emerging Leaders program. The Emerging Leaders program is a bridge and leadership program for students of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. The program includes a pre-orientation week which introduces students to the rigor of college academics, offer workshops to help students adjust to being a member of a primarily white upper middle-class student population and provide peer mentors for social and academic support. The mentoring program pairs each new emerging leader with one or two Emerging Leaders from the previous cohort o Academic Support: Each incoming Emerging Leader is advised by their first-year seminar faculty and or an Academic Support Staff member to assist with registering for classes, time management, study skill development and resources that support academic success.

Policy: We do have hate/bias response policy and a special team is being formed, which will be trained on how to respond to incidents.