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Multicultural Center

The Multicultural Center (MCC) serves as a learning and resource center for the entire Williams community. The Center has three houses: Rice, Hardy and Jenness. The houses contain common spaces including a multipurpose room used for classes and meetings, living rooms used for social gatherings and meetings, kitchens, lounges with televisions, and computer rooms. Reservations must be made through the Secretary of the MCC.

Offices for the MCC staff are located in Jenness House. The staff consists of a Director, Academic Director, Assistant Director, Program Coordinator and a Secretary. The staff works with student groups and academic departments to organize programs and engage speakers of multicultural interests. The Center coordinates the WCBP & WOW programs, hosts lunch forums, special discussion panels, lectures, and receptions in cooperation with other departments or programs to provide systematic and critical engagement with issues of diversity. Hardy House contains offices for the Office of Special Academic Programs (OSAP). The OSAP staff consists of a Coordinator and a Secretary.

The houses also contain office and meeting space for the Minority Coalition (MinCo) board and MinCo Student Organizations which include: Asian American Students in Action (AASiA), the Asian Theater Project (ATP), the Black Student Union (BSU), Chinese American Students Organization (CASO), Koreans of Williams (KOW), the Muslim Student Union (MSU), Native American Students Association at Williams (NASAW), South Asian Students Association (SASA), Students of Caribbean Ancestry (SoCA), Students of Mixed Heritage (SOMH), Queer Student Union (QSU) Vista (Latina/o Organization), Williams African Student Organization (WASO), Williams College Jewish Association (WCJA), Williams International Club (WIC), and the Women's Feminist Alliance (WFA).

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