Programs and Initiatives
Programs and Initiatives
The Center for Student Inclusion and Belonging (CSIB) seeks to enhance the experience of all members of the Loyola community by way of our Jesuit mission through facilitating intentional reflection of the intersections of identities and critical social analysis of systems of privilege and oppression. This goal is accomplished through various programs and initiatives, including but not limited to, community building, mentorship, education, access, and celebration.
All programs and initiatives are open to all Ramblers regardless of religion, race, color, sex, gender, or sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.
Cultural Initiatives
The Center offers programs, events, and practices to celebrate, educate, and build community across different identities and lived experiences. These efforts serve as the heartbeat of belonging work by providing spaces where students see themselves reflected, learn about others, and practice solidarity.
MOSAIC Initiatives
MOSAIC Initiatives celebrate, affirm, and inform all Ramblers while recognizing and supporting diverse cultural experiences. Rooted in learning, growth, education, and celebration, MOSAIC fosters identity exploration, cultural pride, wellness, and advocacy through programming that creates meaningful experiences and self-education that deepens cultural understanding. Through intentional outreach and support, students build connections, navigate college life, and engage in continuous learning while mapping who we are, where we've been, and where we belong.
Gender and Sexuality Initiatives
The Center’s programs and initiatives include opportunities such as monthly community gatherings, retreats, committees, celebrations, and mentorship programs.
LGBTQIA+ Initiatives
LGBTQIA+ Initiatives provides spaces and programs to validate and affirm all orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, lack thereof, or combination of any of those social identities.
LUCES
草莓社区 Empowering Sisterhood (Loyola's Womxn of Color Initiatives, affectionally named LUCES), offer a suite of engagement opportunities for any students interested in the support of self-identified womxn of color experiences.
Social Justice and Anti-Hate Initiatives
The Center is committed to elevating the critical consciousness of the student body through an ongoing series of educational workshops, training, and opportunities to learn, unlearn, and grow.
Anti-Hate Initiative
The Anti-Hate Initiative is a coordinated, cross-divisional effort to cultivate dignity-grounded student leadership through education, response, coalition, and assessment in pursuit of a Loyola where every person feels safe, included, and belonging.
Uplift Initiatives
UPLIFT offers a suite of engagement opportunities for any students interested in the support of first-generation college, low income, and migrant student experiences. Opportunities include mentorship, retreats, committees, celebrations, and monthly community gatherings.
First Generation and Low-Income Initiative
The Students Together Are Reaching Success (STARS) mentorship program pairs first-year students with experienced upper-division mentors for both individual and group mentoring. While centering the experiences of first generation college, low income, undocumented, and immigrant students, STARS offers all first-year students with the support, resources, and tools to navigate the academic, co-curricular, personal, and social rigors of college and build the necessary knowledge and skills to map out their personal path to success throughout their college years.
Monarch Initiatives
Monarch Initiatives is a campus-wide initiative designed to foster community, build awareness on issues related to migrant student experiences, including but not limited to undocumented, DACA, immigrant, and mixed status experiences, and empower students to live out our Jesuit values.
STEP
STEP is a cohort-based transition program that centers equity-assets based approaches to skill development and seeks to amplify the skills and lived experiences participants already possess.