Office of Community and Belonging
Who We Are
The Office of Community & Belonging serves as Cal Poly Pomona’s institutional catalyst for cultivating a Culture of Care. Working across colleges, divisions, and the broader campus community, the Office connects people, resources, expertise, and institutional priorities to strengthen the experiences of students, faculty, and staff.
What the Office Provides
The Office of Community & Belonging offers an integrated portfolio of services, resources, and institutional support designed to build capacity, strengthen connection and belonging, and translate community insight into coordinated action and measurable impact.
Services | Engage, Support, Empower
We provide programs, services, and experiences that foster a sense of belonging, build intercultural competence, and support the holistic well-being and success of our diverse campus community.
- Inclusive Leadership Coaching & Development: Workshops, programs, and coaching to strengthen inclusive leadership.
- Strategic Consultation & Advisement: Guidance to cultivate a Culture of Care across teams, departments, and campus partnerships.
- Mediation, Facilitation & Restorative Support: Non-confidential support to navigate conflict, address harm, and strengthen relationships.
Resources | Educate, Equip, Build Capacity
We develop and provide resources that strengthen intercultural understanding, advance equity and justice, and equip our campus to create more inclusive and supportive environments.
- Culture of Care Workshops: Topical, strategy-focused learning experiences that explore thought diversity and strengthen our ability to engage across difference.
- Distinguished Dialogue Series: Institutional conversations featuring recognized scholars, artists, and visionaries who bring diverse perspectives to issues that shape our communities and world.
- Advancing Racial Justice & Cultural Humility Learning Series: Nationally recognized, cohort-based experiential learning that deepens racial consciousness, cultural humility, and capacity for meaningful action.
- Trainings, Toolkits & Guides: Practical resources that equip individuals and teams to strengthen inclusive practices, relationships, and everyday leadership.
- Institutional Symposia, Summits & Initiatives: Signature learning experiences that bridge theory and praxis, translating knowledge and ideas into meaningful practice and institutional action.
- Research & Data Insights: Community-informed research, assessment, and insights that identify opportunities, inform priorities, and guide meaningful action.
Support | Collaborate, Advocate, Drive Impact
We partner across campus and the community to advance institutional efforts, support equity-minded initiatives, and create opportunities for collective action and lasting impact.
- Campus Partnerships: Strategic collaboration with departments, colleges, and community partners to connect expertise, align efforts, strengthen synergies, and enhance institutional effectiveness.
- Institutional Working Groups & Advisory Boards: Cross-divisional groups that bring together expertise, community voice, and shared accountability to advance institutional priorities and coordinated action.
- Culture of Care Micro-Grants: Small-scale funding to support community-driven ideas and initiatives that strengthen connection, belonging, well-being, and collective impact.
- Faculty, Staff & Student Fellows Program: Engaging faculty, staff, and students as partners who bring their expertise, creativity, and lived experiences to advance institutional priorities and innovation.
- Listening & Feedback Opportunities: Intentional opportunities to gather community voice, understand experiences, identify emerging needs, and translate insight into action.
- Recognition & Impact Initiatives: Opportunities to celebrate individuals, teams, and programs that strengthen community, belonging, well-being, and a Culture of Care.
The Office's Approach
Cultivating a Culture of Care
The Office of Community & Belonging is grounded in a continuous cycle of listening, learning, connection, support, action, and transformation. We recognize and value the meaningful work already taking place across Cal Poly Pomona and seek to build upon the strengths, expertise, relationships, and commitments that are already part of our community. Our role is to help create connections across this work, bringing people, resources, ideas, and institutional priorities together to foster greater collaboration, shared learning, alignment, and collective impact. Together, these commitments provide the foundation for how we cultivate a Culture of Care: