SOURCE Coalition Unrecognzied

Mission Statement
Please note our Student Group name change - "Cultural Center" to "SOURCE Coalition Student Group"

The Lebron-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center is a space and building with multiple faces and purposes. Its history is intertwined with the legacy of struggle on campus: first established out of the Dakin Agreement in 1988, it has grown into a full-fledged office, and safe space/organizing center. Each of these purposes is sustained by a different entity, whose mission statements and funding also differ, but whom work in cross-role collaboration on programming, services, and community outreach. The L-W-P Cultural Center as a Student Services and Administrative Office is headed by Director Melissa Scheid Frantz, as well as a graduate student intern, and a soon-to-be-hired International Students Services Coordinator. This office is an extension of Student Affairs, demonstrating Hampshire College's administrative commitment to the needs of students of color and international students. SOURCE serves as an umbrella organization. We are a coalition of individual groups that do separate programming and provide distinctive safe spaces for racial and ethnic identities in a postcolonial context. However, our needs as a coalition student group are decidedly different, and serve a different purpose. The coalition group maintains closer ties to the Cultural Center as an organizing collaborator; we work together to provide programming. As well, this SOURCE Coalition group maintains the Cultural Center as a community center, which is beyond the means and mission of the Center as an Administrative Office. In short, our purposes are as follows:


 * 1) To maintain the Cultural Center as a Safe Space and Community Center for students of color and international students.
 * 2) To organize and facilitate communication between the individual SOURCE-affiliated groups, as well as train future signers for each group.
 * 3) To support and collaborate with offices on programming geared toward or involving students of color and international students.
 * 4) To serve as a Unity Voice for the SOURCE community on campus.