University of Massachusetts Amherst
PAE-T2-3: Student Training Opportunities

Activities and training are available to all students through the Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success (CMASS). CMASS is a student centered learning agency within the division of the Center for Student Development. By serving as a campus resource that facilitates and promotes a learning community that acknowledges, appreciates and values multicultural understanding and exchange, CMASS strives to advance the personal, academic and professional success of diverse populations of students, staff, faculty and the larger university community. The Cultural Enrichment activities conducted as part of CMASS focus on expanding and deepening intentional learning skills while supporting cultural sustainability and intellectual diversity. Student staff who take part in these activities work to enhance programming for cultural awareness theme months, provide opportunities for co-curricular social and mentoring engagement with faculty and staff, and support student initiated collaboration between cultural registered student organizations (RSOs), as well as developing other cultural education programs and activities. In addition to activities available through CMASS, incoming first year students in 2013 were given the opportunity to join a Residential Academic Program (RAP) focused on Social Justice & Activism. This program was designed to explore themes of social change from multiple perspectives, and their relevance to current issues at UMass Amherst and in the world at-large.

http://www.umass.edu/multiculturalaffairs/about/ http://ualc.umass.edu/rap/completelistofraps/socialjusticeactivism/