Services
The Office of Multicultural
Affairs is responsible for creating and fostering a campus-wide climate
of respect while promoting a culturally diverse and nondiscriminatory
campus community. The office offers year round programs to expose students,
faculty, and staff to other cultures and ethnicities. Additionally, the
office provides orientation sessions to acclimate students of color to
campus life. The director serves as an advocate for students of color,
advises The Black Affairs Association, The Gospel Choir, and produces
an annual report reflecting multiculturalism on campus.
To support in these efforts, the office appreciates and celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disabilities Awareness Month, Native American Heritage Month, National Black History Awareness Month, National Women's History Month, Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month, and Gay and Lesbian History Month.
Our Mission
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is responsible for creating and fostering a campus wide climate of respect, advocating for the promotion of a culturally diverse and non-discriminatory campus community.
The office identifies and promotes formal and informal opportunities for students of color to learn about their history and take pride in their heritage. Students are enabled to achieve academic success through services such as counseling, advising, and recruiting, and retaining, while providing educational opportunity.
Our Services
- Personal Counseling Students of color are able to get encouragement from someone they feel shares their similarities. Students are open to discuss and seek support about the everyday issues that are dealt with on college campuses today.
- Advocate
Serves as a liaison for Students of Color when necessary to assist with university related issues or concerns. - Incentive Scholarhips
This renewable scholarship is offered to full-time minority students who meet specific academic standards. Students must be in good academic standing or have potential for academic success and financial need. Applicants must be incoming freshman, transfer, or adult students. - Public
Performance Scholarship
This scholarship is offered to students who participate in the ETSU Gospel Choir. The award waives out-of-state fees for full-time incoming students that maintain satisfactory academic standing. Applicants must audition to receive the scholarship before the upcoming academic year.