The program provides:

  • Educational planning (including degree/certificate planning)
  • Academic support (by an interdisciplinary team of Umoja faculty and staff mentors)
  • Holistic support (through events geared towards total mind/body/soul wellness)
  • Culturally-relevant classroom and life experiences, activities, and opportunities to enhance and impact learning
  • Textbook support and school supplies
  • Transfer resources to UC’s, CSU’s, Private Schools as well as HBCU’s
  • Leadership opportunities on campus and in the community

 

Advantages to being in Umoja include:

  • Individual counseling support
  • Referrals to community and campus resources
  • Student support network
  • Mentoring
  • Student leadership training/opportunities
  • Annual Umoja Community Regional Symposium and Conferences

 

Apply

In order to become an Umoja member, you must complete an Umoja application:

Umoja application link

 

Contact

Brent McLaren
Counselor, Umoja Program Co-Coordinator
Brent.McLaren@chaffey.edu
Charles Williams
English Professor, Umoja Program Co-Coordinator
Charles.Williams@chaffey.edu

 

Umoja Team

Brent McLaren, Counselor
Charles Williams
, English Professor
Tara Johnson
, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising Professor
Dr. Taisha McMickens
, Communication Studies Professor
Donald Essex, DPS Counselor
Adam Martinez, English Professor
Dr. Emilie Koenig, English Professor
Bradley Franklin
, Systems Specialist
Dominique Johnson, Counselor
La Quirshia Fennell
, Counselor
Kenyon Callahan, Political Science Professor