Multicultural Affairs Advisory Committee (MAAC) Mission
Mission
The mission of the Multicultural Affairs Advisory Committee is to advise the Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) on policy and programs necessary to implement OID's mission.
The goals of this committee are to advise the Office of Institutional diversity on:
- the facilitation and development of an institutional environment that fosters cross-cultural interaction
- the process of expanding all curricula to include considerations of cultural values and factors specially relevant to the education of health professionals
- ways to create and sustain opportunities for community collaboration
- ways to facilitate processes with appropriate internal entities that will assist UT in becoming more reflective of the larger society
- ways to encourage research that is of particular interest and benefit to communities of color.