OMA staff and Diversity Scholars collected donations outside of Walmart for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Food Drive on Jan. 30, 2021 | Courtesy Image
Small Staff Does Big Things
The Office of Multicultural Affairs has a far and wide-reaching influence on university life

The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) has a small but passionate team of three staff members and a wide network of student organizations.    This team is made up of Office […]

Literature and art displayed for people to view of Black history | Emily Pearce | Argonaut
The Future of Black Excellence on Display
The BSU has teamed up with Shelley Carr to create a Library

During Black History Month, students of The Black Student Union do not want people to focus only on what is in the past. Instead, Black Student Union Communications Director KT […]

Alphonse Crittenden walks to his class on Paradise Path, Feb. 23. Richard Pathomsiri | Argonaut
Black History Month and what it means now
University of Idaho professors and students lament on this year's Black History Month

Tragedies of police brutality and ongoing racism in the U.S. highlight the importance of Black History Month this year.   The annual event, since its small start in 1970 at Kent […]

Native American Center bids farewell to graduating students
An alumna of the University of Idaho share experiences, career goals and what’s next

Damian Hawley grew up on the Colville Indian Reservation in central Washington, two hours south of Spokane. His reservation’s ancestral lands reached into Idaho, lending him in-state tuition at Idaho’s oldest, land-grant university.