Welcome to the MLC
Welcome to the Multicultural Learning Community, congratulations on your admission to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, ON WISCONSIN!!!! We’re glad you’re here. Go ahead and explore our website. You’ll find pictures, testimonials and newsletters about the MLC. So point and click away!!!
DEDICATED TO UNDERSTANDING
The Multicultural Learning Community in Witte Hall is a community dedicated to serving students who have a thirst to understand the problems, issues, benefits, and contributions of human diversity and social justice. From the opening convocation through the end of the year celebrations, the MLC strives to bring people together around these topics. MLC residents have access to all of the amenities of Witte Hall and are encouraged to take advantage of the additional services:
- Enrollment in the MLC Seminar (Multiculturalism in Societal Places and Other Spaces), a small weekly course led by Professor Carl Grant.
- The MLC House Fellow, Diversity Coordinator, and Interns are always around to answer questions, plan events, or discuss topics raised in the seminar.
MLC residents have a thirst to understand the problems and issues, as well as, the benefits and contributions of human diversity. Learning is a lifelong experience, so MLC residents seek this understanding to constructively shape their actions and behavior in order to be successful and caring students and citizens.
MLC GOALS
MLC residents work towards being able to:
- Examine their own beliefs, ideas, behaviors and involvement in issues
- Discuss the intersections among aspects of identity and systems of oppression
- Identify the dynamics of power relations and the associated material effects
- Examine how life experiences are shaped by factors at the individual, societal, and institutional levels
- Identify and/or formulate plans of action that challenge/resist oppression/oppressive forces
News & Publications
In Spring 2008, the MLC began the creation of the Women in REDzine. Visit the Campus Women's Center to learn more about this online magazine.
Residents also created a video about cultural diversity. You can watch the video by visiting You Tube: MLC Cultural Identity Collage.