The Rutgers Office for Intercultural Initiatives is the locus for cross-cultural diversity, on the New Brunswick campus uniting the three cultural centers – the Paul Robeson Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, and the Center for Latino Arts & Culture. The mission of the office is to promote a climate of respect for diversity by fostering academic and public service multidisciplinary collaborations that advance intercultural and inter-group relations across ethnic, racial, class, trans-gender boundaries, and across disciplines. Through special initiatives the office seeks to:

• Develop strategies jointly to strengthen cross-cultural inter-group relations among students, faculty and academic administrators

• Disseminate the latest scholarship and theories related to intercultural interaction in partnership with the cultural centers and university wide academic units

• Advance collaborative opportunities across disciplines with diverse communities working together to develop long-term systemic changes that will increase social pluralism in Rutgers.

• Build broad connections between the university and the state’s mainstream organizations, corporations and foundations involved in promoting globalization and fostering cross-cultural knowledge.