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ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement (ODECE)

ODECE is the central hub that outlines the University's Diversity, Equity, and Engagement Mission and IDEA plan (Inclusion, Diversity, and Excellence in Academics

• Organizes Diversity and Inclusion workshops.
• Provides Scholarships: Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative, Student Support Funds for first generation or historically underrepresented students with financial need (see below).

Colorado Diversity Initiative (CDI)

The CDI, located within the ODECE, promotes diversity in STEM disciplines by offering a variety of programs:

• Summer Multicultural Access to research Training Program (SMART): Offers 10-week summer research internships for rising juniors and seniors.
• Colorado Advantage Program: Invites selected PhD applicants during a weekend to learn about STEM PhD programs.
• STEM routes: Underrepresented minorities in STEM participate in organized community events, research mentorship, and research workshops.

Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (OIEC)

The OIEC, another unit within the ODECE, handles reporting, and misconduct related to protected-class discrimination or harassment, sexual misconduct, and abuse.

• Discrimination and Harassment Policy: Helps students remain in school or work, ensures safe and nondiscriminatory environment, provides resources for individuals who have experienced discrimination or harassment.
• Legal, medical, counseling services, immigration/visa services, campus housing changes, transportation and parking, CU financial and registration processes.
• Disability, Pregnancy & Lactation: Ensures that people with disabilities are being accommodated and have equal access to CU resources, ensures that University complies with Americans with Disabilities ACT, deals with harassment complaints on the basis of disability.

Center for Inclusion and Social Change (CISC)

The CISC fosters retention of students from multiple identities by empowering, cultivating a sense of belonging, educating, celebrating diverse communities, and building collaborations.

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL): Inclusivity Programs

Provides training on inclusive pedagogy, provides resources that guide instructors in redesigning the structure of their courses to create a more inclusive learning environment.

• Organizes weekly meeting for Inclusive Community of Practice (ICoP).
• Just & Equitable Teaching (JET): Micro-credential program for equitable teaching and teaching international students.
• Teaching consultations for equity-minded teaching practices.
• Online links for resources for inclusive instruction.
• Anti-Racism Canvas Course.

CU LEAD Alliance (Leadership, Excellence, Achievement, Diversity Alliance)

A set of academic learning communities that focus on inclusivity and student success, organized by academic neighborhoods.

Miramontes A&S Program (MASP)

The MASP, located within CU LEAD Alliance, is an application-based program offering a scholarship for participation.  The MASP provides academic advising through a MASP faculty mentor, MASP classes, professional development, and community-building events. The MASP hosts other bridge events for all MASP programs in the summer before CU enrollment. The MASP hosts several application-based subgroups with their own events and programs:

• Building Leadership Among Communities of Color (BLACC): A student-led program that provides support and community for Black students and allies.
• Learning, Inclusion, Networking, & Community (LINC): Current CU students in the College of Arts & Sciences can join MASP by applying and participating in the LINC bridge program, a weekend retreat designed to create an inclusive academic community. Those who successfully apply and participate become eligible for a MASP scholarship.
• Program for Excellence in Academics & Community (PEAC): A rigorous residential academic summer bridge program designed to improve the chances of academic success for highly motivated incoming freshmen from traditionally underrepresented groups and/or who are first-generation college students.

Veteran and Military Affairs

The ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø Veteran and Military Affairs (VMA) office can assist with pay, programs, policy, information and support for prospective and current student veterans and veteran dependents.