{"id":267,"date":"2011-11-11T04:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/virtualsantaclara\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2011-12-15T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:42:00","slug":"santa-clara-university%e2%80%99s-multicultural-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/virtualsantaclara\/moving-towards-diversity\/santa-clara-university%e2%80%99s-multicultural-past-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara University\u2019s Multicultural Past, Present, and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the 1950\u2019s- 70\u2019s, SCU like many places in the country, experienced tremendous cultural and ethnic change. In the 1950\u2019s, the student body was predominately white. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., in the spring of 1968, SCU called for increased minority admittance. However, minority students on campus were pressured to assimilate to \u201cwhite\u201d culture and curriculum on campus. In response to racial tensions, minority students felt the need to create The Multicultural Center<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

By the 1980\u2019s California\u2019s population had become very diverse<\/a>. Santa Clara University recruited an increasing number of minority students to diversify the campus community with ethnicity. The MCC was created in the basement of Graham with six minority student organizations (UNITY) in the 1985-1986 academic year. In 1991 the MCC was moved from Graham to Benson Memorial Center, where other student organizations were to have offices.<\/p>\n

The MCC\u2019s slogan is \u201cEducate, Challenge, and Empower\u201d and it\u2019s main objective is to provide minority students and organizations with an environment that will allow them to express themselves and foster appreciation for different cultures on campus.<\/p>\n

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UNITY members in new Benson facilities.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Additional Information:<\/p>\n

Santa Clara University Archives: The Multicultural Center’s past documents<\/p>\n

Russ Skowronek, Telling the Santa Clara Story, <\/em>page 188.<\/p>\n

The Multicultural Center\u2019s website: http:\/\/mcclove.wordpress.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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