Summer Escalera: Latino Network partners with Oregon State

Summer Escalera is designed to support juniors in high school entering their senior year, providing them an experience that gives them a taste of college life and opening the possibilities for their futures.

Read more: A place for all

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Veteran and Military-Connected Community Care

Support and services for veteran and military-connected students are provided through Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and the Holcomb Center for Military and Veteran Resources, with an emphasis on mental health and increased awareness.

Read more: Mission-focused on mental health

OSU Core Education

OSU's Core Education program, launching in summer 2025, will prepare students to be proactive members of society who are ready to take on any challenge, solve any problem and help build a better world.

Read more: More relevant, more responsive to the changing world

Alumni Impact: Dr. Keith Dempsey

Dr. Keith Dempsey, '93, M.S. '96, Ph.D. '10 is enacting positive social change in the community and at OSU. He supports Black students at OSU, initiated the Black Alumni and Friends Network and prepares people entering the field of professional counseling, emphasizing the need for providers representing the Black community.

Read more: Counselor Keith Dempsey encourages progress and healing for OSU's Black community

Addressing biases in Artificial Intelligence

Eric Slyman, a Ph.D. student in artificial intelligence and computer science, looks at how AI learns social biases and sees representational harms in how images are generated. They’ve built a tool called VLSlice to help AI auditors address biases quickly, accurately and economically 

Read more: Unbiased vision: Eric Slyman works to address fairness and representation in AI

OSU Assist

OSU Assist is a multidisciplinary support team providing compassionate mobile crisis response and wraparound services for individuals facing extenuating circumstances or experiencing other forms of distress. 

Read more: No one should ever feel alone in a time of crisis

OSU-Cascades collaborates with Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Leona Ike, '24, an elder in the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and a recent graduate of OSU, served as student Tribal liaison and Tribal cultural advisor while at OSU-Cascades. In this role, she shared Indigenous culture and history as part of the First Peoples of Central Oregon Cultural Experiences in October 2023.

Read more: Visibility, understanding, respect

Oregon State supports 2023 NDiSTEM conference

The National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) conference is the largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity conference in the country, and the annual conference for SACNAS. OSU's presenting partnership included a large collaborative investment from the university in the recruitment and support of minoritized students and faculty. 

Read more: Conference showcases OSU's scientific excellence, commitment to diversity in STEM

Research supports importance of racial literacy on mental health

Dr. Iván Carbajal's research focuses on psychology and mental health of Latinx and Black and Brown communities. As an ECampus Fellow with Dr. Steven Sanders, his work is seeking to identify whether an online course on race and racism serves as an intervention in increasing racial literacy. 

Read more: Inclusivity in the virtual classroom

State of Diversity at Oregon State - Taking Action

Read the companion piece to the 2024 State of Diversity at Oregon State, featuring stories of just a few of the efforts reflecting Oregon State's commitment to creating access and belonging for all.