Campus Life

Multicultural Services

The Department of Multicultural Services enhances the personal and academic success of students by preparing them to lead in a multicultural world. Department staff members work with campus partners to create and sustain a living, learning and working community that is inclusive and responsive to diversity and facilitates success.

Multicultural Services’ programming efforts are geared toward diversity education, student success, outreach and leadership development. The department is also the home of several student organizations and programs that promote leadership development and personal growth. These include Ambassadors; University Awareness for Cultural Togetherness (U-ACT); Whoopstock Unity Festival; African American Student Coalition; Maximizing Educational Development through Academic and Leadership Skills (MEDALS); Asian Presidents’ Council; Encouraging Respect, Acceptance and Scholarship through Education (E“RA’S”E); African American Student Leadership Institute (AASLI); Shining Texas Aggies Reaching for Success (STARS); Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference (SBSLC); ExCELlence uniting Culture, Education and Leadership (ExCEL) Student Success Program; Institute for the Development of Asian American Leaders (IDEAL); and Hispanic Presidents’ Council.

Department services include academic and personal advising; access to scholarship opportunities; mentoring and tutoring; a resource library of multicultural books, articles and audio/video tapes available for checkout; and a student lounge.

The Department of Multicultural Services is an excellent resource for ALL students. We believe that it is important to celebrate differences while uniting as an Aggie family.

For more information, please contact:

Department of Multicultural Services

137 Memorial Student Center
Texas A&M University
1121 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-1121
(979) 845-4551 or (800) 513-4714
Fax (979) 862-2640
dms@aggieculture.tamu.edu
aggieculture.tamu.edu