Umoja Community at CSUB supports transfer students through unity, connection, and
an ethic
of love grounded in the African and African American diasporas.
What is Umoja?
Umoja (A Kiswahili word meaning unity) is a program that integrates academics, support services and African-American culture. We seek to educate the whole student — body, mind and spirit — through an ethic of love. African and African-American histories and voices are deliberately and intentionally acknowledged and are woven into the learning experience, and this integration is seen as empowering to students and as foundational for their academic and personal success. Students are full participants in their learning and growth. Umoja aims to develop students into leaders and role models in their college and larger community.
Umoja is a member of the state-wide Umoja (Unity) Community Education Foundation.
The 18 Umoja Practices
In Umoja we deeply value intentional and deliberate purposefulness. We should know why we areare doing what we do; nothing should be random. this does not mean that learning and teaching is all pre-determinded, proscribed, or pre-scripted. We are claiming here that we need to raise our capacity to be intentional and deliberate while creating "live learning" spaces and programs. Doing so helps our faculty engage a conscious dialogue informing their practice and choices, and helps us engender in our students a similar conscious dialogue about their practice and choices.
Contact Information
Shanell Tyus, M.S.
Umoja Coordinator
umoja@csub.edu