Omar Brown-El is the Director of the Center for Multicultural Initiatives (CMI). His work focuses on designing, implementing and evaluating university-wide student recruitment and retention support programs and services to specifically support the university's mission and goal of achieving and graduating a diverse student body. Mr. Brown-El also concentrates on advocating for systematic change within the institution and on building internal and external relationships with faculty, staff and the OU community to help all students, but particularly underrepresented students, succeed. Omar provides leadership and training to promote diversity throughout all aspects of the university. He also administers departmental programming and student employee's budgets, and provides direct training and supervision to graduate interns and to para-professional staff.
E-mail: brownel@oakland.edu |
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Nicole Lucio is the Assistant Director for the Center for Multicultural Initiatives. Her work focuses on designing, implementing and evaluating university-wide student support programs and services designed to increase retention and graduation rates of underrepresented students. She administers departmental programming and budgets as well as trains and supervises graduate interns and para-professional staff. Ms. Lucio conducts diversity training, oversees the programming for Hispanic Celebration Month and facilitates The Circle of Sisterhood. Ms. Lucio is a member of the American Counseling Association and NASPA.
E-mail: ndlucio@oakland.edu |
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Denise Jones is the Retention Coordinator for the Center for Multicultural Initiatives. Her primary responsibilities include, monitoring scholarship requirements of over 150 students and supervision and leadership development of the CMI Peer Mentor team. Additionally, Ms. Jones develops, implements, and monitors retention strategies to ensure student success, and interacts with student organizations to develop a strong rapport between students and the CMI office. Lastly, Ms. Jones oversees the programming of African American Celebration Month and is a member of the Michigan Counseling Association.
E-mail: drjones@oakland.edu |
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Arthur L. Hampton is the CORE Program Coordinator for the Center for Multicultural Initiatives. He is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and is a graduate of Alabama A & M University and Eastern Michigan University. As the CORE Program Coordinator, he oversees: The CORE Program, which includes the Summer Bridge Initiative, which is a weeklong residential academic enrichment program for incoming first year students; The Circle of Brotherhood, which is an all male peer mentoring group that meets weekly aimed at assisting young men in reaching their full potential; The CORE Alumni group, which provides support to students beyond their first year. He is a member of Kappa Delta Pi Honor Education Honor Society, American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and Michigan College Personnel Association (MCPA).
E-mail: hampton2@oakland.edu |
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Barbara Smith is the Administrative Assistant for the Center for Multicultural Initiatives. Her primary responsibility is to provide clerical support to the Director and his staff. Moreover, Barbara is the first point of contact for students who are seeking to apply for loans, scholarships or to make an appointment with a CMI counselor. Also, Barbara provides support by answering questions and directing students to apporpriate CMI and other campus resources. Finally, Barbara holds a degree in Business Administration from State University of New York at Buffalo and comes to us with over 20 years of business experience.
E-mail: bssmith@oakland.edu |
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