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Signature Programs
Big Sista-Little Sista
Ida B. Wells Living-Learning Community
Ida B. Wells Institute
Ida B. Wells Society
SOAR
Umoja House
Big Sista/Little Sista is a mentoring program for students of color, pairing first-year students with upper-class student leaders.
Big Sista Contract (MSWord)
Ida B. Wells Living-Learning Community
Ida B. Wells Living Learning Community is a unique academic residential program designed to address the transitional needs of African-American first-year students at Mary Baldwin College. Students who participate in the living learning community are enrolled in a designated section of MBC 101 and are housed together in Spencer Residence Hall. The course curriculum embraces a program designed to equip students with tools for college success, self-discovery, service learning, wellness, and leadership development.
Who Is Ida B. Wells?
Born a slave in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells achieved national attention as a leader of the anti-lynching crusade, a writer, an activist, and a suffragist. Wells traveled throughout the United States and Europe with the anti-lynching message. She wrote extensively on the injustices faced by African Americans, and she was engaged in a never-ending effort to organize women and African Americans. |
Ida
B. Wells Application (PDF)
Ida B. Wells Brochure (PDF)
Advising
Curriculum
Kwanzaa
Wall of Honor Project
Class Quilt
Black Baby Doll Day
Black History Month Oratorical
Contest
The Ida B. Wells Institute is a one day orientation program that is designed to introduce IBW students and parents to the expectations of the IBW Learning Living Community. It is facilitated by student leaders and the IBW Living Learning Community staff and faculty. During the Institute time will be allotted for academic advisement; discussion of required summer reading; team building programming; study skills assessment and special informational sessions for parents and students. The IBW Institute is held the day before the SOAR Orientation. IBW participate must attend both orientation sessions.
Ida B. Wells Society
The Ida B. Wells Society was created to recognize the scholarly achievement
of African-American students. Members of the Ida B. Wells Living Learning
Community who achieve a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and who
participate in community service and fully participate in the activities
of the living learning community will be inducted into the society.
Honorary members are inducted each fall and during Kwanzaa from alumni
who have contributed to the community and who value academic achievement.
Some honorary members of the Ida B. Wells Society are: Johnice Hill,
Natasha Findley, Amanda Davis, Jawanda Smith, Kamala Payne, Lanae Hawkins,
Nakita Hansen, Tamika Jones, Rev. Andrea Cornett-Scott, Dr. Amy Tillerson,
and Joanne L. Harris.
SOAR Survival
Opportunities and Resources
SOAR: African American and Latina Student Orientation is a one day orientation program that offers an opportunity for families to intimately interact with students, faculty, administrators, community members, and alumnae. SOAR is scheduled one day prior to the traditional new student orientation. Interested students should register through the office of African American and Multicultural Affairs. SOAR was initiated in 1997 to help facilitate a smooth transition for our students of color into college life.
SOAR
brochure (PDF)
Orientation Leader
Application (MSWord)
Umoja House(MBC's African-American Cultural Center)
The
Umoja House is a special interest residence which houses five, highly
motivated young women who are committed to creating and facilitating
events that celebrate and explore African-American History and Culture.
Working closely with the Office of African-American & Multicultural
Affairs, the residents of the Umoja House hope to create a center for
co-curricular learning. Umoja House Programming will embrace: open
discussions designed to explore current events, literature, film, and
other areas of interests; sister talk forums where students of color
are invited to bring their experiences to share in a supportive environment;
support for the Umoja Chronicles, the newsletter designed
to share communication between multicultural student organizations;
service learning opportunities organized to foster a strong town/gown
relationship within minority communities; and special events offered
to those who are genuinely interested in learning more about
African-American Culture in a in a safe and supportive environment. Come
and share with us in a year of cultural exploration. And remember: Not
to know is bad but not to wish to know is worse. - African
Proverb
Umoja
House brochure (PDF)
Daddy
Long Leg Collection: Our collection of Daddy Long Leg
Dolls was generously donated by Bruce Joffe, associate professor of
communication, to support our Annual Black Baby Doll Day. The dolls
are hand-crafted in Texas by artist Karen Germany. There will be an
official unveiling of the collection during Black History Month 2007
at the Umoja House.
Umoja House Residents: Barbara
Sha Jackson, Danielle Petway,
Tiffany Jackson, Tina Brown, Carren Cardwell
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