Dear Student Affairs Colleagues and Student Life Mosaic Center Faculty/Staff Partners,

As you know, our 21st Century global society has become increasingly diverse. Many of our students, despite being open to that diversity, still need to increase their cultural competencies - the skills and awareness related to communication and interaction across all social identities.  

Student Life's Mosaic Center staff are creating a new Mosaic Center Diversity Presenters group to help develop this important life and interaction skill set within our students. This group, an outgrowth of our former Diversity Education Intern program, is the next evolution in our diversity and social justice education efforts. To prepare to launch this new initiative, this fall we are offering diversity "train the trainer" sessions to students, faculty and staff interested in serving as diversity and social justice education presenters.  Our first 3 hour training for UMBC staff and faculty (and selected students) will be:

If you have prior diversity presentation and facilitation experience and can attend the training, visit our myUMBC group event and complete the brief interest form: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/26236.  If you have questions or can't attend this training but want to be a presenter, email mosaic@umbc.edu or call Lisa Gray directly at 410-455-8478.  

We've received several student interest forms for the training already.  We really could use more faculty/staff participants!  So, thank you for considering this opportunity.