What does a Cultural Advisor do?

Question

What does a cultural advisor do

Answer 1

The Cultural Advising Network works to create a more multiculturally inclusive environment at Wellesley College. Representing our richly different cultural identities and heritages, the group stands together to examine campus climate and to model unity in addressing the needs and interests of a truly culturally diverse community.

To further these goals, each member of the Cultural Advising Network serves as an advisor and advocate for her own cultural group. The Network also serves the college community in the following ways:

    * Policy review and development

    * Information regarding programs, resources, speakers, and diversity initiatives at other colleges and universities

    * Programming

    * Consultation to departments seeking to expand their policies and programs to become more culturally inclusive

    * Proactive problem-solving

    * Community response/Crisis intervention

Above all, the Cultural Advising Network models a community standard of relationship: respecting, valuing and seeking to understand each other's experiences and identities. The Network builds alliances for institutional advancement and renewal using these standards as our foundation.