Who We Are
The Multicultural Engagement Center is a student led resource center dedicated to the affirmation, uplift, and education of historically marginalized students on the University of Texas at Austin. Our mission is to empower students to be agents of positive social change on campus and beyond our forty acres. This is achieved through programming, dialogue, academic and mental health support, and personal/professional development opportunities. Currently, we operate with four full time staff members as well as six student staff employees, and over 30 student leaders.
What We’re Fundraising For
While programming remains a key component to the work that we do, our staff has begun to consider the impact of incorporating the goals of the core competencies of career readiness into the ways that we shape and define our conversations and practices. We will achieve this through our Cultural Immersion Experience (CIE) Program. The MEC's CIE Program will include coursework, heritage month celebrations, dialogue series, workshop presentations, and cultural exploratory field lessons. Student participating in the CIE Program will explore the histories, modalities, and praxis of social justice activism and advocacy within the various contexts that student leaders interact with during and following their time on campus. They will examine what they currently know about activism and advocacy and reframe their understanding of social issues and social change.
We aim to connect academic inquiry to actions that will improve society and their respective communities, empower them to demonstrate an ability to analyze social issues, evaluate competing claims and justify their positions, and demonstrate personal and interpersonal development via experiential opportunities. The goal is for the students to develop an informed activist framework where they can begin to understand how to utilize the skills that they are learning in their classrooms, in their respective organizations, within their interpersonal relationships, etc in their future careers, internships and/or graduate programs.
Your Impact
As the campus community has become increasingly diverse, the center has come to be a hub for mobilization about various campus issues that students are committed to changing. However, students that have a passion for this work are often involved in many organizations on campus that require a financial investment for their participation. Therefore, our goal is to successfully kick off our Cultural Explorations series and increase participation and financial accessibility in our annual Leadership Exchange. To this end, our donors would help to maximize the impact of this program by eliminating the often-steep financial responsibility that accompanies an opportunity like this. Your donation will help to fund transportation, lodging, food, and/or activities while students learn to translate their passions into applicable skills for their futures.
Thank you to everyone for another amazing campaign! Below are the challenge winners for the final hours of the campaign!
Time for Another Surprise Challenge
1st Place: WINNER UT Men's Ultimate Club
2nd Place: WINNER The University of Texas Weightlifting Team
3rd place: WINNER Texas Trap and Skeet
Hungry, Hungry Bevo Challenge
1st Place: WINNER UT Men's Ultimate Club
2nd Place: WINNER Texas Trap and Skeet
3rd place: WINNER The University of Texas Weightlifting Team
40 to the 40 Surprise Challenge
1st Place: WINNER Longhorn Racing
2nd Place: WINNER UT Men's Ultimate Club
Final Countdown Challenge
1st Place: WINNER Texas Trap and Skeet
2nd Place: WINNER The University of Texas Weightlifting Team
3rd place: WINNER Texas Women's Rugby
Longhorn Pride Social Media Challenge
1st Place: Longhorn Band Student Association $1,000 Prize
Runner-up: Women's Club Lacrosse $250 Prize
Procrastinator Gift WINNER Longhorn Racing $500 Award
6,000 Milestone WINNER UT Men's Ultimate Club
7,000 Milestone WINNER Longhorn Racing
8,000 Milestone WINNER Black Student Alliance
State & International Challenge Winners - Check your donor wall these have been awarded!
Leaderboard Challenge Winners - Check the challenges page wall for the final leaderboards. Prizes will be awarded soon!