MSU Women of Color Community

Michigan State University’s Women of Color Community or WOCC was founded in fall 2018 by members of the Institutional Diversity: Excellence in Action or IDEA coordinators team. It was established as a social, networking and professional resource for women of color on MSU’s campus. WOCC is meant to be a unifying term and is inclusive of Black, Arab, Asian, Chicana/e/x, Latina/e/x, Native, Indigenous, Pacific Islander and biracial/multiracial identities. This community is open to all administrators, faculty, academic specialists and staff colleagues.

WOCC hosts several events throughout the year including:

Fall Welcome
Annual conference
Book club
Quarterly meetings with full body and MSU Administrators

The focus of all these meetings and events is to discuss issues related to the recruitment, retention and advancement of WOCC on campus. The meetings are formatted to share the time, space and learning process equitably, so that all can participate and benefit from being together. WOCC is expanding its efforts by collaborating with other women’s communities on campus to include professional development opportunities for its members. Funding support is primarily through solicited donations and grants such as Creating Inclusive Excellence Grants, or CIEG, at Michigan State University.