This is the physical location of the Multicultural Center.
What is Student Center, Suite 360.
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A program for first year incoming ALANA students that focuses on personal, professional, academic, and social leadership development. The program this year will take place Saturday, August 24th through Tuesday, August 27th.
What is ALANA Experience.
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This is who our office services.
What is 'everyone'. While we focus on retaining our ALANA students we play a huge role in educating the broader campus community.
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These are the offices we work with on a daily basis.
What are Counseling and Student Development, Campus Police, Health and Wellness, Academic Services, Admissions, Career Services, Student Life, and YOU!
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Miriam, our Administrative Assistant or one of our work study students.
What is Miriam Acajabon or one of our work study students.
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This program provides college admission support for high potential students who may have faced academic, socioeconomic, and/or personal challenges beyond their control. The program's support system includes mentoring and monitoring each student's academic progress and providing academic advising, counseling, and referrals.
Other key features of this program are the strong collaboration between program staff and the student's parent(s) or guardian(s), and a six-week summer residential experience, emphasizing academic development.
What is STEP.
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This is the ALANA student cumulative GPA.
What is 3.14.
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These are just some of the programs we do in collaboration with our corporate sponsors.
What are Job Shadowing, office visits, lunch with benefits, Suits to Success, among other outreach methods and leadership/professional development workshops.
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This is the first thing every student does (or should do) when they walk into the Center.
What is sign in.
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This program is based on a student mentor/mentee partnership. Incoming first year ALANA students and sometimes transfers are purposefully paired with an upperclassmen. These connections help the students make good decisions personally, professionally, and academically. Students can apply to be a mentor or mentee of this program online right now.
What is ASAP (ALANA Student Advancement Program).
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This is the total number of incoming first year ALANA students.
What is 223.
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This is the professor and class that Claudette and the MCC help plan together. This system used, that used to include CISS, helps students connect not only to each other but to their
What is Ron Evans' - Cross Cultural class.
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We have a graduate student who has been with us since the beginning of last year. He is a current Bentley grad student. His responsibilities are working with our Men's group in coordinating and implementing programs that will help our ALANA men succeed. This includes the yearly Men's retreat.
Who is Victor Montoya.
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This is the number of actual offices located within the Multicultural Center.
What is 4.
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These are some of the programs associated and assisted by the MCC but aren't necessarily solely MCC events.
What Culture Fest, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Festival of Colors, etc.
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This is total number of incoming ALANA Transfer Students.
What is 31 incoming ALANA Transfer students.
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We work closely with this office in bringing 80 prospective ALANA students to campus in the Spring for our ALANA Overnight Program.
What is Admissons.
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What are 3 particularly important things we do according to our Mission?
What advising, advocacy, and outreach.
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This is one of our biggest pet peeves about the physical office.
Location/Space
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This is new program, or series of program that will be held every first Friday of the month in the MCC or the MCC lounge. Students will be able to visit the MCC and discuss the topic(s) at hand, enjoy in activities and refreshments, and also get to 'hang out' with invited faculty and staff around campus. Every Friday is September specifically we will host this program.
What are First Fridays.
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This is the total number (aprox.) of ALANA students we have right now including our incoming first year and transfer classes.
What is over 700 ALANA Students!
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This is the number of multicultural student organizations does the MCC currently advise. BONUS: Name them.
What are 8 multicultural student organizations that fall under the MCC's advisement --
Bentley Asian Students' Association
Bentley Association of Chinese Students
Black United Body
Korean Student Association
La Cultura Latina
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South Asian Student Association
Vietnamese Student Association
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Are you friends with us on Facebook?
Why not! we have almost over 900 incoming, current, alum students AND a bunch of faculty, staff, and corporate partners already. If you're looking to get in touch with some of the students we service on a regular basis, this is a great way to start.