Campus Resources
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers a wide range of resources to support APIDA students on campus.
University Housing
College is a great way to meet new people and build friendship with students from different backgrounds. University Housing offers a wide range of amenities and services to make your stay with us an enjoyable and memorable one.
Global Crossroads
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The Global Crossroads Living Learning Community is intended to challenge and motivate students whose interests, experiences, and aspirations have a strong international component. This global community provides students with opportunities to become interested in world events, improving understanding of global perspectives, practicing foreign language skills, or planning a future that includes international work or service.
Intersections Living Learning Community
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The Intersections Living Learning Community brings together students, faculty, and staff who are committed to improving race relations through intergroup dialogue, scholarship, research, the arts, and social action. They are a community of scholars in a multiracial/multiethnic environment where students learn to talk about and across difference and sameness, increase their knowledge of their own and other groups, acquire the tools to analyze social inequality, and develop the skills to improve intergroup relations.
Multicultural Advocates
Multicultural Advocates are students living in the residence halls who have specialized training on issues of identity such as gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, and socioeconomic status. MAs focus their time, talents, and enthusiasm on making our undergraduate halls safe and welcoming environments for all students. They provide programs and learning opportunities for students that deal primarily with issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice. They serve as leaders and role models within the residence hall for confronting acts of intolerance or hate, encouraging dialogue among students, and working toward true multicultural communities.
McKinley Health Center
The McKinley Health Center strives to provide quality health care to the diverse population of UIUC and to provide education needed for students to make informed decisions about their health. McKinley offers a wide range of services including immunization, pharmacy, physical exams, nutrition counseling, and much more.
Special Population Health Issues
The Special Population Health Issues unit offers health information for specific groups including Asian Americans. In addition to the health information available online, the Health Center now has information handouts of 26 topics available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Health Resource Center
McKinley Health Center offers the Health Resource Center once a week at the Asian American Cultural Center which offers cold packs, wound care packs, condoms, and spermicide. All students are welcome to bring a student ID to obtain these products.
The Counseling Center
The Counseling Center is designed to help students address many academic, relational and emotional concerns. The staff at the Counseling Center have diverse backgrounds and a wealth of experience working with students. Staff members of Asian-decent at the Counseling Center are available to discuss issues facing Asian and Asian American students. They have Cultural Diversity Outreach, which has specific, culturally tailored resources for Asian Americans, international, and first-generation students.
The Counseling Center offers one-on-one counseling, group, and couples' therapy, ready/study skills programs, educational workshops, and self-help brochures on a wide range of topics. The Counseling Center often presents workshops at the AACC on specific topics such as interracial dating, gender, culture, Asian American identity, media stereotyping of Asian Americans, racism, sexism, and intergenerational issues.
The Career Center
The Career Center provides information regarding majors and careers. It has a staff of professional counselors as well as numerous support and student staff that can help you in many areas.
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Career and Major Explorations
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Experiential Education Information
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Job Search Resources
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Health Professions
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Graduate School Information
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Resume and Cover Letter Critiquing
International Students
The Career Center offers various professional programs for international students, including the Career Certificate, Global Careers Series, workshops, resources for work authorization, international friendly companies, job searches in the U.S. and abroad, and more.
University YMCA
The University YMCA develops campus and community leaders committed to social justice, environmental protection, interfaith cooperation, and global engagement by fostering dialogue, reflection and action.
New American Welcome Center
The New American Welcome Center at the University YMCA helps immigrants fully integrate into American society and prepares receiving communities around Champaign County to be welcoming and inclusive. By engaging local institutions and mobilizing community resources, we help make our community a place where newcomers and immigrants can thrive and flourish.
Various programs and resources include:
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Immigration Legal Assistance
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Free Legal Clinic
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Immigrants in Champaign County Report
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Free Citizenship Class
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Oasis Digital Resource Center
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Welcoming Week
International Student and Scholar Services
International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) is committed to providing culturally sensitive services of the highest quality. We strive to create an environment that is conducive to a successful educational, personal, and professional experience. We serve our international population and campus units through advising, immigration services, programming, advocacy, and outreach.
Some programs and resources include:
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Advising
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Regulatory Compliance
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Status Processing
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Educational, cultural, and social programs
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Print and online publications for campus life and Champaign-Urbana
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Intercultural Training Workshops
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Global Competence Training
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Financial Assistance
Office of Minority Student Affairs
OMSA's mission is to provide exceptional support services that enhance the academic achievement, personal development, and graduation rates of first-generation, low-income, and historically underrepresented students at Illinois.
OMSA offers various resources like advising and tutoring, federal TRIO programs, workshops, and more to improve retention rates, graduation rates, learning outcomes, and student satisfaction.
Bias Assessment and Report Team
Bias-motivated incidents are actions or expressions that are motivated, at least in part, by prejudice against or hostility toward a person (or group) because of that person’s (or group’s) actual or perceived age, disability/ability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, race, religion/spirituality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, etc.
Housed within the Office for Student Conflict Resolution at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Bias Assessment and Response Team (BART):
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Collects reports of bias-motivated incidents that impact students
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Supports those impacted by bias
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Provides opportunities for educational conversation and dialogue; and
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Publishes data (without personally identifiable information) on reported incidents.
As many of the incidents reported to BART are not violations of the law or the Student Code, the team generally utilizes an informal educational approach in its response. BART refers reports of bias-motived incidents that also violate university policy to the appropriate office for investigation.
You may report bias-motivated incidents that occurred within the university community or that involved members of our community by sending an email with a detailed description to biasreport@illinois.edu or by completing the form at go.illinois.edu/biasreport.