Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Bloomsburg
When you join the Husky family, you join a welcoming, accepting, supportive, and inclusive campus community that helps you create your own unique path for personal and professional success.
Our campus is a vibrant community
At Bloomsburg, we're proud to be a diverse campus community working together to produce positive change. Our campus is defined by a robust climate of equity and inclusion that our entire campus has fostered. Here is a closer look at the exciting work that's taking place. Join us!
Centers
The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) was established in 1994 with the support of the university, the State System of Higher Education, and the Community Government Association.
Institutions of higher learning that have supported the founding of multicultural affairs offices recognize that such units provide a distinct level of programming and educational services that address the specific challenges and issues faced by historically underrepresented individuals and groups include to, United State Citizens of African, Asian, Hispanic/Latino/Chicano and indigenous descent, disabled, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender individuals, women and religious groups. The OMA staff is dedicated to helping students succeed and graduate from BU.
Contact Multicultural Affairs
Madelyn Rodriguez
mrodrig2@commonwealthu.edu
570-389-4937
229 Kehr Union Building
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The Women's Resource Center is dedicated to improving the status of women on campus through the development and implementation of educational programs, community outreach, victim advocacy, and referral services.
Our work is guided by a commitment to equity, safety, inclusion, and respect. In partnership with other campus areas off campus agencies, we strive to:
- Enhance awareness of gender-based issues
- Promote violence prevention
- Address the needs of a diverse population of women
- Advance and empower all women on campus
Contact the Women's Resource Center
Megan Wein
570-389-3933
101 Kehr Union Building
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The LGBTQA Resource Center at Bloomsburg is committed to making our campus a safe and welcoming space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and allied students through education, programming, advocacy, and public policy. The Resource Center welcomes all members of our campus community.
Contact the LGBTQA Resource Center
Megan Wein
570-389-3933
101 Kehr Union Building
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Bloomsburg's Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic Excellence, under the inspiration of Frederick Douglass and other distinguished leaders of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, promotes academic excellence among students and enhance their understanding and appreciation of human diversity.
The institute is part of the PASSHE collaborative established to enhance the academic life of participation universities and to enrich their campus climate. It enables all members of the university community to identify with a man whose life and work embody American democratic ideals and educational excellence.
The institute develops and implements collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching projects that enrich our general education and enhance the quality of our culturally diverse courses.
In addition, the Frederick Douglass Institute:
- Encourages students to take responsibility for their academic performance
- Encourages students to use Frederick Douglass as a model for their own academic achievement
- Helps to improve the retention and graduation rate of historically under represented students
- Promotes joint research projects among BU faculty and students with those in other PASSHE schools
Contact the Frederick Douglas Institute
Carolyn Reid-Brown
creid@commonwealthu.edu
570-389-5105
Incident Report
Bloomsburg will use the information submitted in the incident report to launch an investigation. This process may include contacting those involved and any possible witnesses. However, the investigation and response efforts may be restricted if the report lacks detailed information.
News
New class of scholars inducted into Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic Excellence
Bloomsburg
More than 50 students from various majors, as well as graduate studies, were recently inducted as student scholars into Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg’s Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic...
Future teachers lend their voice to Advocacy Day at the State Capitol
Lock Haven
A group of Commonwealth University-Lock Haven education majors did their part this spring advocating for several key issues facing teacher education, including fully funding student teacher stipends...
First World graduates encouraged to let light shine so others can see
Bloomsburg
Don’t allow others to define you. You've got to prove it. It’s okay not to be okay. It pays to be in front. Four simple messages serving as lasting advice handed down by Keith Freeman Jr. ’01...
Soon-to-be graduates honored during First World celebration
Bloomsburg
Eyes are now set on the commencement stage for this group of Class of 2024 members who were recently honored during the fall semester's First World Graduation Ceremony by Commonwealth University...
DEI at Bloomsburg
Our DEIB Team
Kenneth L. Hall
- Interim Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Officer
- Lock Haven
Madelyn Rodriguez
- Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Bloomsburg
Megan Wein
- Director of the LGBTQA & Women's Resource Centers
- Bloomsburg
Carolyn Reid-Brown
- Associate Professor
- Bloomsburg
Ralph Godbolt
- Interim Director of Act 101 (Access and Success)
- Bloomsburg
Jill Whitenight
- Administrative Assistant
- Bloomsburg
