Oberlin College
PAE-8: Support Programs for Under-Represented Groups

• The Counseling Center co-sponsors a support group with the Multicultural Resource Center for LGBTQ students. • The Multicultural Resource Center sponsors more than 300 programs each year to support students of color, first generation students, lower income students, and LGBTQ students. • The Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People provides support for historically underrepresented students. International students are supported by the Dean of Studies office. • The International House provides community and programming space for international students. • Student Academic Services provides services for historically underrepresented students especially first generation and lower income students. • Scholars programs like POSSE, Questbridge, and Bonner provide support for historically underrepresented students. • Mellon and Oberlin Undergraduate Research Fellowships provide support for historically underrepresented students. • Equity Affairs policy and administrators support the entire college community related to issues of harassment and discrimination. • The Ombusperson supports the entire community including historically underrepresented communities. • The Oberlin College Dialogue Center provides facilitation and mediation services for students, faculty and staff based on a social justice mediation model. • There are programs like the Multicultural Visit Program run by Admissions to recruit historically underrepresented students. • Living spaces like Asia House, Third World House, Afrikan Heritage House, and Baldwin Women’s Collective support historically underrepresented students. • Within the Oberlin College Cooperative System, Third World Co-op and Kosher Halal Co-op support historically underrepresented student communities. • There are a wide range of student organizations (approximately 20) focused on the interests and concerns of historically underrepresented students such as Asian American Alliance, ABUSA, Black Musicians Guild, Students of Caribbean Ancestry, La Alianza Latina, Lambda Union, Transgender Advocacy Group, Zami, etc. • There are curricular departments and programs like Comparative American Studies (curricular home to Ethnic Studies and LGBTQ Studies), African American Studies, and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. • There are also faculty working on issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, indigenaity, disability etc. in a number of other disciplines like Sociology, Politics, Classics, History, English, Theater and Dance, etc.

• The Multicultural Resource Center provides support for faculty from historically underrepresented groups as well as faculty who teach in certain areas of the curriculum. • The Associate Dean of Academic Diversity also works on curricular and faculty diversity initiatives. • The Consortium for Faculty Diversity and Mellon postdoctoral programs recruit diverse faculty to Oberlin. • Dean of Arts and Sciences curricular diversity grants support conversations within and between individual faculty and departments and programs around issues of diversity. • Equity Affairs policy and administrators support the entire college community related to issues of harassment and discrimination. • The Ombusperson supports the entire community including historically underrepresented communities. • The Oberlin College Dialogue Center provides facilitation and mediation services for students, faculty and staff based on a social justice mediation model.

• The Multicultural Resource Center supports historically underrepresented staff. Equity Affairs policy and administrators support the entire college community related to issues of harassment and discrimination. • The Ombusperson supports the entire community including historically underrepresented communities. • The Oberlin College Dialogue Center provides facilitation and mediation services for students, faculty and staff based on a social justice mediation model.