About
The Office of Multicultural Student Success (OMSS) is a key partner in DePaul University's efforts to admit, retain and successfully graduate low-income college students, first-generation college students and students of color. We offer numerous programs and involvement opportunities for students and their families, so please look around our site to see where you fit in! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us…we'd love to meet with you!
Our Mission
The Office of Multicultural Student Success seeks to cultivate belongingness, retention and persistence to graduation for students of color, students who demonstrate financial need, first-generation college students, undocumented immigrant students, and students with marginalized genders and sexualities.
Our Vision
To envision and model strategies of naming, navigating, and resisting the structural systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
To reimagine the DePaul experience for students in our target populations.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of engaging with OMSS programs and services, students will be able to:
- Explain why / how historically marginalized social identities are an asset
- Demonstrate a commitment to identity-consciousness
- Articulate how social identity-based inequality influences their lived experience
- Describe the realities of various social identities and cultures
- Describe how social identities of historically marginalized groups influences personal and academic success
- Articulate which campus resources are relevant to their academic needs
- Articulate the transferable skills from their positional experience to post-graduate opportunities
Programs & Services
OMSS offers job opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Undergraduate
Peer Mentors: STARS Peer Mentors are sophomore, junior and senior level students who are partnered with freshmen who are first-generation, low-income or students of color for one full academic year. During that year, the mentor serves as a guide to assist their mentee in navigating the transition from high school to college at DePaul.
Graduate
Graduate Assistants (GAs): OMSS offers three graduate assistantships for students pursuing their graduate degrees at DePaul University. From assisting with program development to leading workshops, the Graduate Assistants (GAs) are paraprofessional staff with a high level of responsibility and autonomy. OMSS GAs support the following initiatives:
- Cultural and Resource Centers Operations
- Marketing and Digital Communication
- Providing Access through Holistic Support (PATHS)
- Students Together Are Reaching Success (STARS)
- Undocumented Student Support
Applications for all graduate positions are available during the Spring Quarter.
Office of Multicultural Student Success
Lincoln Park Student Center
2250 North Sheffield, Suite 105
Chicago, IL 60614-3298
Phone: 773.325.7325
Fax: 773.325.7326
Identity-specific Cultural and Resource Centers
Lincoln Park Campus, O'Connell Building, 3rd Floor
1036 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 773.325.7325
Email: omss@depaul.edu
Staff