Multicultural Youth Conference

November 30, 2007

multicultural youth graduating

MYC Schedule

 

The Center for Education in Small Urban Communities will host the 4th annual Multicultural Youth Conference (MYC). Organized by a committee of UIUC undergraduate students and coordinated by the Center, MYC targets high school students of color, as well as first generation and low income students from the following Champaign-Urbana area schools and initiatives: Unit 4's Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) students, District 116's Minority Enrichment Program (MEP) students, and Rantoul Township High School. This year's program will take place at the Levis Center and various other campus venues on Friday, November 30, 2007, from 8 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Students of color as well as first generation and low income students are too often underrepresented on campuses throughout the United States. It is the planning committee's hope that MYC can play a significant role in increasing access to higher education, enhancing student knowledge about resources/support services, and ultimately empowering and strengthening our community’s youth and families.

MYC objectives include:

• helping participants with higher education preparation;
• increasing participant access to successful and ethnically similar university professionals and students;
• providing students with information about higher education processes and procedures;
• enhancing participants’ access to useful information; and
• strengthening the bridge between the local secondary schools and UIUC

MYC includes a broad representation of campus partners:

  • College representatives from the College of Education, College of Business, College of Engineering, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Applied Health Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Communications, and College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Economic Sciences
  • Office of Admissions and Records
  • Office of Financial Aid
  • University Housing
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Physics
  • Office of Minority Student Affairs
  • Epsilon Delta, SAGE, and MAFE
  • Via-a-Vis

The Center is extremely excited to host the Multicultural Youth Conference for the communities of Champaign-Urbana and thanks the following co-sponsoring units:


Academic Affairs
Agricultural, Consumer, and Economic Sciences Extension & Outreach
Admissions & Records
Anthropology
Center for Writing Studies
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
Campus Honors Program
College of Business
College of Education
College of Fine & Applied Arts
Gender & Women's Studies Program
International Programs & Studies
La Casa Cultural Latina
Latina/o Studies Program
Library and Informational Sciences
Office of the Chancellor
Office of Continuing Education
Office of the Provost
Office of Women's Programs
Psychology Department
Krannert Art Museum
Kinesiology & Community Health