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Magazine | Center for Black Student Success provides central home, support
Center for Black Student Success provides central home, support
CSUMB opened its new Center for Black Student Success (CBSS) in Fall 2020 to engage and empower African Diaspora students by providing academic, professional, and personal/cultural support and enrichment programming.
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CBSS serves as the central hub and campus home for Black student life, working with campus and local community members to ensure Black collegiate success at CSUMB. It will operate under faculty director Umi Vaughn, an associate professor in the School of Humanities and Communication. Vaughn teaches Africana studies, anthropology, music and performance, and visual and public art.
The center will also have an advisory body to President Eduardo M. Ochoa and Brian Corpening, associate vice president for inclusive excellence. The body is composed of representatives across campus strategically aligned with the CBSS goal of increasing the number of Black students enrolled at and graduating from CSUMB.
The primary responsibility of the committee is to align the on-going programs and initiatives across campus and provide campus leadership and feedback on how to support Black student success at CSUMB.
The center will also partner directly with the Africana Heritage Scholars Living-Learning Program, African American Faculty & Staff Alliance, African Heritage Research Collaborative, Men of Color Alliance, Harambee African Heritage Men’s Community Gathering, the Otter Cross Cultural Center, as well as the varied student organizations that support Black students.
