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Western is committed to creating a community of backgrounds, experiences, identities, and opinions.
- Nearly 200 Multicultural Achievement Program (MAP) scholarships are awarded each year to students who provide leadership in campus programs, student clubs, community activism, and other activities that celebrate diversity and promote understanding.
- Student Outreach Services (SOS) seeks to recognize and understand the needs of first-generation students and students from under-represented, non-traditional, and multicultural backgrounds. The SOS staff can help students develop the skills needed to succeed at Western—enabling them to seize every possible opportunity to experience personal growth and achieve academic goals.
- In its 13th year, the Ethnic Student Center supports numerous student clubs and provides a means for all members of the campus community to learn about cultures other than their own. The ESC is also a welcoming place to study, eat, talk, or just hang out.
- Western is one of only nine universities nationwide to receive a federal grant for developing a program specifically for Native American students interested in becoming high school principals.
- The interdisciplinary Law and Diversity Program, offered through Fairhaven College, prepares students interested in issues of law, diversity and social justice for law school. Open to all interested students, the program particularly welcomes students whose ethnic, social or economic community is underrepresented in the legal profession and who have the potential to act as leaders and role models in their community.
- Cultural and ethnic clubs on campus include the African American Alliance, African Caribbean Club, Asian Pacific Islander Student Union, Filipino American Student Association, KHMER Student Association, India Mystica, International Students Club, LATSA (Laos and Thais), MEChA, Native American Student Union, and Vietnamese Student Association.
- Western was named to the Publisher's Picks 2001 List by th Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education. The award is given annually by the publication to schools that offer "outstanding opportunities to latino students."
- Western's Distinguished Lecture Series has given students the opportunity to see outstanding speakers, including Maya Angelou, Cornell West, Jane Goodall, Coretta Scott King, and Ira Glass.
