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 The Center for Intercultural Development (CID) has been a vital member of the Mount family since 1999. Before 1999, we were known as the Office of Multicultural Affairs. The name change reflected the institutional commitment by The Mount to actively enhance diversity and intercultural dialogue among faculty, staff, and students of diverse ethnic, racial, cultural, and national heritage.
We believe that a campus community that is unified through diversity is one that is inclusive, welcoming, and respectful. The Center prides itself in building and promoting programs, services, and resources that serve to celebrate and promote unity through diversity, as well as provide services that foster the personal, leadership, and intellectual development of all students, particularly under-represented multicultural populations .
Statement of Purpose
In accordance with the Catholic liberal arts tradition of the University, the Center for Intercultural Development works with students, faculty, and staff to foster an understanding and an appreciation of diversity as a condition of communal richness and intellectual excellence. The Center broadly defines diversity to include issues of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and special circumstances due to socio-economic status and physical conditions. The Center also serves as an advocate for diverse student groups by encouraging their academic success and involvement at the University.
To that end, the Center fosters and promotes intercultural awareness through lectures, performing arts, seminars, Café Conversations, trips, a diversity resource library, and much more.
The Center also affirms the inclusion of diverse under-represented student groups by providing and sponsoring academic support, student success workshops, leadership development, Mosaic Buddy Peer Mentor Program, The Mosaic Times Newsletter, The William Randolph Hearst Minority Students Scholarship Program and much more!
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