MOSAIC
MOSAIC (Motivating Our Students to Advocate for an Inclusive Campus) is a peer-to-peer education program with the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and the Genders & Sexualities Advocacy Center. MOSAIC Educators are students who facilitate discussions and workshops which explore academic concepts of personal positionality, intersectionality, power and domination, and belonging, while utilizing a critical thinking lens for the UW-Parkside community. MOSAIC Educators encourage all students, staff, and faculty to examine identity and cultural competencies as presently understood, to advocate for an inclusive and interrogative environment which welcomes our differences, and invites rigorous and challenging dialogue thereupon.
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The programs, services, and initiatives sponsored by this office are open to all students.
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ABOUT MOSAIC EDUCATORS AND WORKSHOPS
What We Offer | MOSAIC Educators facilitate the following workshops by request. These work as a stepped model wherein students can explore concepts of identity, culture, power, and position within an academically grounded and reflexive framework.
Who We Are | MOSAIC educators are trained UW-Parkside students who offer salient peer-to-peer educational programming on difference, power, and personal position, to critically engage peers and invite rigorous discussion amongst their cohort and for the broader community.
IDENTITY, CULTURE, & SELF
Beginner | This workshop focuses on students' personal identities and cultures, fostering conversations and reflections on where these ideas emerge and converge in creating public life.
POWER, CULTURE, & SELF
Intermediate | This workshop focuses on students' experiences navigating broader culture and power structures, and the ways institutions and systems generate and interact personally with their expectations in, and understanding of this process.
ADVOCACY, POWER, AND SELF
Advanced | This workshop focuses on students' abilities to vocalize their personal positions within systems of culture and power, how to connect these with others of both similar and disparate experience, and facilitates differentiating personal and public advocacy.