Cultural and Resource Centers

The UI's three historical Cultural Centers and its new Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Resource Center provide a permanent gathering space for students of various cultures to interact with events, film series, organizational meetings and other programs.

Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival
This campus festival brings together hundreds each spring to learn about various cultures through food, crafts, personal interaction and education.

Cultural Centers
The UI three Cultural Centers provide a permanent gathering space for students of various cultures to interact with events, film series, organizational meetings and other programs.

Diversity Dialogues
In these dialogues, small groups voluntarily meet for up to 10 weeks to learn about and discuss issues created by difference.

UI Diversity Resources

GLBTAU
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allies Union (GLBTAU) is the oldest student government recognized and funded organization of its kind, providing opportunities for education, social interaction and political activism.

My Iowa
Minority and International Student Summit (formerly entitled the Global Retreat). With a new name and new goals, MY IOWA hopes to establish common frames of excellence for University of Iowa minority and international students. Held at Camp Io-Dis-E-Ca in Solon, Iowa, the overnight Summit will offer strategies for building and maintaining strong and vibrant communities for underrepresented student populations. The program will facilitate personal development for underrepresented students by familiarizing them with University resources, introducing students to one another, and teaching leadership skills needed to establish and cultivate community. Students will explore their own perspectives and consider the perspectives of others through self-discovery activities and dialogue with other retreat participants.

Martin Luther King, Jr./Human Rights Week
Human Rights Week begins with a community convocation held on the MLK holiday, and continues with an engaging week of lectures, presentations, performances and potlucks.

Multi-Cultural Calendar
Sponsored by the OSL, this new calendar service provides a comprehensive listing of multi-cultural events on campus and in the area.

Cultural & Resource Centers Recognition Reception
This reception is to honor and acknowledge the significant accomplishments, initiatives, innovations ,work or service by the University’s students, student organizations, staff & faculty, and university organizations that have contributed to the preservation and well being of the cultural and resource centers.

Safe Zone
A workshop discussing terminology, understanding sexual identity and providing resources for individuals to become allies for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals.