Multicultural Student Services Outreach through the Cultural Envoy Leadership Program (CELP) is provided to public schools, corporations, state, and community entities. Students become eligible for leadership opportunities and scholarships by meeting and presenting at leadership-promoting opportunities.
The Cultural Envoy Leadership Program is a UVU sponsored leadership program that validates students’ cultures and supports their pathway to completion. As a student in CELP, you will learn to navigate and negotiate your experience at UVU, your community, and other critical spaces that you may celebrate as important.
The program is open to all students who want to understand and refine facets of their culture, identity, and lived experiences to facilitate their development as scholars, change agents, and stewards of a globally interdependent community.
For more information stop by the Center for Global & Intercultural Engagement in LA 114, or follow our socials:
Victor Narsimulu - Program Director
Laura Gomez - Student Coordinator
Kilinahe Akana - Student Coordinator
As our students create, perform, view, and interpret dance as a socio-cultural phenomenon at UVU, they will be engaged in transforming their ideas from a classroom setting to the dance floor. In learning about dance forms of diverse cultures, we come to appreciate the cultural stories of people, both past and present, and validate the student experience outside of the classroom.
We believe in four main principles that guide the Cultural Envoy Leadership Program. These values all contribute to student success and are part of our approach to culture-based leadership.
We are committed to these Four Tenets of Cultural Envoy:
We increase outreach and retention through storytelling and showcasing our individual cultures.
We partner with the Global/Intercultural Initiative to increase students’ ability to analyze global issues, recognize the complexity of different cultural groups, and evaluate how one’s own cultural values compare with others’ beliefs.
We support students’ academic growth with culturally relative accountability, including GPA requirements, a weekly study hall, and the Summer Bridge program.
We provide learning opportunities through relationships with others at different points of their academic career and work with the Mountainland K-16 Alliance to achieve these goals.
CELP provides a summer bridge component for incoming freshmen to UVU in the month of June. The program is an opportunity to incoming freshmen to take a Math Leap course and a writing course that helps students prepare for fall semester. The classes are taught Tuesdays and Thursdays for four weeks at the UVU campus and culminate with a banquet where students are recognized for their completion of the program. The students in the summer bridge program are mentored by current students from CELP, thus giving incoming freshmen valuable insight into understanding how to navigate college.
The Global/Intercultural Distinction will give our students an official distinction on their diploma when they graduate with their bachelor’s degree. The University underscores its commitment to valuing global and intercultural opinions, backgrounds, traditions, perspectives, and experiences. UVU recognizes that fostering an intercultural learning curriculum and an understanding of and appreciation for a variety of cultural perspectives and experiences is an essential element of higher education. The Global/Intercultural Engagement Distinction is geared toward students who wish to have a structured emphasis on global, intercultural, and issues of diversity during their collegiate career and offers students an opportunity to interact with diverse ideas and people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.
○ Successful completion of four G/I (global/intercultural) courses Practicum/co-curricular requirements ○ Practicum: 200 hours of community interaction with an approved agency. Agency and experience must receive approval from the G/I committee prior to participation. Some examples of appropriate agencies are listed below, but others may be used as well. These hours will come from CELP students outreach efforts in the program.
Multicultural Student Services
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