Finding Aid Revised: Payton Rosello (05/29/2025)
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The Office of Multicultural Academic Success (OMAS) works under the University of Oregon's Division of Equality and Inclusion to administer academic and advocacy resources for self-identified students of color, LGBTQ+ students, and first-generation college students to establish a culturally supportive environment and empower equal opportunities throughout the university. Initially established in April of 1977 as The Council for Minority Success and later The Office of Multicultural Affairs, OMAS has since taken over the work of the original offices to provide a wider range of support and may now also be found on the University of Oregon campus as the Center for Multicultural Academic Success (CMAE). Among student-focused activities such as community events, networking opportunities, specialized academic tracks, political advocacy work, and grant support for minority programs, OMAS also undertook broader university policy initiatives to support affirmative action efforts and academic freedom laws.
Source: Center for Multicutlural Academic Success Website: https://inclusion.uoregon.edu/center-multicultural-academic-excellence-cmae
The Office of Multicultural Academic Success (OMAS) records documents the correspondence, meeting minutes, policy decisions, and promotional material inherited from the Council of Minority Education and Office of Multicultural Affairs from 1969 to 2007.
The beginning of the records highlights administrative action from the Council of Minority Education and Office of Multicultural Affairs including their meeting minutes, correspondence, and memorandums as well as reports on Federal Programs and Alaskan Natives in book format, grant proposals presented to the council, and promotional photoslides. The records also document work done by various committees surrounding OMAS through meeting minutes, correspondence, memorandums, budgets, and project proposals for the Affirmative Action Committee, Education Opportunity Committee, and Committee on Academic Freedom as well as other affiliated task forces and committees
Following administrative and committee work, information on specialized minority academic programs including meeting minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, correspondence, and curriculum changes can be found along with minority enrollment evaluations and advising resources from Academic Support and Advising.
The Office of Multicultural Academic Success (OMAS) records also feature work by student campus organizations including the Black Student Union, Native American Student Union, Asian American Student Union, MEChA, LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, and Women's rights advocacy groups including photo slides highlighting various events, posters from the Queer Film Festival, grant proposals, budgets, correspondence, information on policy and amendment advocacy and meeting minutes.
In addition, the OMAS records contain documentation on programming held by the office including photo slides, proposals, correspondence, schedules, and project evaluations from symposiums, conferences, and community projects.