United Front Multicultural Center
Kimberley Fernandes ,
Assistant Director
Student Life Pavillion, Room 418
(619) 260-2395
www.sandiego.edu/unitedfront/
Hours:
| Monday-Friday | 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. |
The United Front Multicultural Center (UFMC) engages the University of San Diego Community in exploring and affirming the unique identity of each person. The center fosters an environment where student leaders feel empowered to become change agents for social justice and builds relationships with faculty, staff and students to develop a foundation that honors and values diversity. The center serves as an educational resource, working to contest the dominance of prejudice and intolerance. The United Front Multicultural Center works to enact the values of the University of San Diego as ‘a welcoming, inclusive and collaborative community ...marked by protection of the rights and dignity of the individual.’
The United Front Multicultural Center staff is composed of graduate and undergraduate students. The students are a resource to their peers. The Center provides its staff with leadership development, valuable life skills, work experience, diversity training and programming experience.
The mission of the ten student organizations (Aikane O’Hawaii, Association of Chicana Activists, Black Student Union, Filipino Ugnayan Students Organization, International Student Organization, Jewish Student Union, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan, PRIDE, Association Interntionale des Estudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, and Native American Student Organization) at the University of San Diego is to provide an environment conducive to the unique expression of these different micro-cultures that have historically experienced discrimination.
The primary objective of the United Front Multicultural Center is to contribute to the creation of a campus environment which respects and supports diversity and pluralism by striving to improve communication within and among culturally diverse groups in order to strengthen understanding and awareness of diversity. The UFMC embraces diversity of age, ability, economic status, ethnicity, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. The members support diversity by discouraging ignorance, insensitivity, intolerance, oppression and prejudice.
