Multicultural Programs
AMA: Ambassador of Multicultural Awareness
As a vital part of the Customs program and team, the AMAs bring a unique focus on issues of diversity and multiculturalism. The AMAs are yearlong volunteers committed to heightening awareness and increase campus-wide participation in cross-cultural programs and activities both on and off campus. AMAs reach out among students, faculty, administrators and staff to contribute to building a community that encourages affirmation, exploration, and celebration of diversity.
MMUF: Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
The MMUF aims is to increase the number of minority students, and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will pursue PhDs in core fields in the arts and sciences. The program strives to reduce over time the serious under representation of faculty from certain minority groups, as well as to address the attendant educational consequences of these disparities. The program serves the related goals of structuring campus environments so that they will be more conducive to improved racial and ethnic relations, and of providing role models for all youth. MMUF aims to achieve its mission by identifying and supporting students of great promise and helping them to become scholars of the highest distinction. MMUF Application Information.
MSP: Multicultural Scholars Program
The Multicultural Scholars Program offers a series of workshops to enhance students’ academic success, peer tutoring and mentoring, and opportunities for research during the summer and academic year. The ultimate goal of the program is to offer guidance, support and a variety of opportunities to Haverford minority students in the hopes of helping students to not only succeed academically in their four years at Haverford, but also in the hopes of fostering future success in graduate schools and career plans.
MAST: Mentoring and Student Teaching
The Mentoring And Student Teaching program is a long-standing outreach program. The MAST program provides laboratory experience and writing tutorials for 40-50 Philadelphia area high school and middle school students who come from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. Haverford College students prepare the course curricula, devise and teach the scientific labs, and work one-on-one with high school and middle school students as tutors every Saturday during the academic year.