The Cultural Programming Board (CPB) is a collaborative of chartered student organizations that hosts high-impact cultural programming on campus; elevates the relevance of underrepresented cultural perspectives; and stimulates critical dialogue about culture, inclusion, and community.
The CPB is a growing network of student organizations and their members. We serve as a unifying structure for communication, leadership development, and skill and capacity building. OIL and CPB develop large-scale programming together, including the Cultural Org Awards in spring.
Goals
- Promote cross- and intercultural learning
- Foster collaboration among students from different backgrounds
- Elevate the presence and relevance of underrepresented cultural perspectives
- Stimulate critical dialogue about culture, inclusion, and community
- Improve student leader skills, knowledge, and capacity
Who can be a part of the Cultural Programming Board?
Any chartered student organization that has an interest in creating culturally relevant programming at Carleton is welcome to attend the CPB meetings. Although many organizations that do this work have missions that center around an aspect of identity or serve an affinity group, this is not a requirement for being a part of culturally positive programming on campus.
Note: Any mention of the phrase “Cultural Organization/Cultural Org” is a legacy term that was used to highlight certain organizations, but is now used to refers to any organization that does programming that contributes to the growing education and awareness of cultural perspectives or experiences.
If you are unsure about whether you would benefit from having your organization represented in the CPB, you may reach out to Marshall directly to have a conversation.
Funding
Student organizations have access to funding through their spring allocations, which are established at the end of the previous spring term. Additional funding sources are available including from partnered offices, Carleton Student Association (CSA) special allocations, and the Cultural Programming Fund. You can find out information about CSA funding sources and the process of requesting funds on CSA’s website. These funding sources should be considered before accessing the Cultural Programming Board funding pool.
OIL will provide an additional $300 for the year to organizations who show regular engagement with the Cultural Programming Board. Organizations should use the Purchase and Reimbursement Request Form on our website to access that funding. Note: submissions must be submitted a week in advance from the date of the event and we ask that no single request be a total of $150 or more at a time. If you have questions about the funding process, please reach out to Marshall.
CPB Storage
There are several storage rooms in the Multicultural Center that are dedicated to housing student organization storage. This is not personal storage of group members, but items that belong to the student organizations themselves.
OIL manages a group of Multicultural Center Student Supervisors who hold shifts in the MCC and have access to a key to these storage rooms. If someone is on duty at the student worker desk in the MCC you can ask them for help in removing, storing, or cataloguing your organization storage. If you do not currently have storage but would like to apply for this opportunity, please reach out to Marshall to talk about available space and whether you want to transfer your items into new storage bins that have been purchased by OIL.