Arizona State University (ASU) has one of the largest public state university populations. On ASU’s Polytechnic (Poly) campus, the African American, Latinx, Native American, Indian, LGBTQ+, et al. people are wildly underrepresented. The organizations that encompass these clubs on Poly have to repeatedly search for spaces where their organizations can meet for the year. There is not a central space where our organizations can co-exist, be safe, and thrive as students and student leaders because of the lack of a Multicultural Center. Due to the low representation of the aforementioned groups at ASU, from students to faculty, it leads to a lack of diversity at each of their campuses. A great way to increase this diversity would be to provide a space across all its campuses that students, current and future, can foster relationships in a comfortable environment.

Since a Multicultural Center can encompass the multitude of these diversities, which is long overdue, it would fulfill those needs. It would be where organizations on each campus can be centralized and have events that culturally educate the entire population of ASU, including prospective students and their families. This would also enable ASU’s Charter to become a reality, which says: ASU is not measured by whom we exclude, but rather by whom we include and how they succeed. At this time, the organizations are not succeeding at the potential they should be, and a Multicultural Center will be the start of “assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the communities it serves.”