• Provide an open and accepting community for CCI students.

• Provide tools to help make students marketable for the global work place.

• Help students learn to stand out and think independently.

• Create a climate that affirms and endorses diversity

• Provide underrepresented students with support, programs and experiences that will keep them in CCI and in college.

• Build a bridge between CCI and existing diversity programs at UT.

• Provide an atmosphere that allows students to discuss ideas and information associated with diversity and conflict.