The Keeper of the Dream Award recognizes outstanding students who have helped foster interracial understanding and goodwill. Through reflecting on the needs of their own communities, recipients of the...
The Keeper of the Dream Award recognizes outstanding students who have helped foster interracial understanding and goodwill.
A recipient goes above and beyond to advocate for a multicultural connection...
The Keeper of the Dream Scholarship Award recognizes outstanding students who understand and embody Martin Luther King Jr’s message on interracial understanding. While she often saw past recipients as...
El Festival del Barrio was the latest addition to the Hispanic Heritage Month roster of events that brought together various cultural experiences, music and food from Latin America to Oakland University.
Hosted...
As one of the inaugural events of the semester, the Center for Multicultural Initiatives (CMI) and the Association of Black Students (ABS) embellished Elliott Tower with the now traditional, CMI Welcome...
Oakland University held a “Letters to Lansing” event hosted by the Political Engagement and Civil Discourse group, on Monday, April 8.
The event started out with a discussion by local politicians,...
The Wrongly Incarcerated panel discussion, hosted by the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) at OU, brought five diverse speakers together to discuss the impact, testimonies and action plans to...
A tribute to community building and the teaching of violence de-escalation took place at the Kingian nonviolence training on the night of March 7 in the Laidlaw room of Oakview Hall.
Kim Reidgan, coordinator...
Before he made it to Oakland University and found his passion for Film Studies and Production, Tayion Williams grew up on the east side of Detroit. During his time at Cass Technical High School, Williams...
An opening ceremony for African American Celebration Month (AACM) was held on Tuesday, Jan. 16, hosted by the OU Center for Multicultural Initiatives (CMI).
During this ceremony, the CMI pays tribute...
Sept. 15 marked the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month. The celebration first began in 1968 under President Lyndon B Johnson, originally known as Hispanic Heritage Week. In 1988, Hispanic Heritage...
The Center for Multicultural Initiatives (CMI) is welcoming Oakland University alum Sarah Bodnar to their staff as the newest coordinator for their CORE (Collectively Oakland Retains Everyone) program.
Bodnar...
