A Student-Centered Hub
The Center for Intercultural Engagement and Support (CIES) is rooted in three powerful pillars: Education, Empowerment, and Experience.
- Education – We support your growth through cultural learning, identity development, intercultural dialogue, and social justice engagement.
- Empowerment – We help you lead with confidence and find your voice—through peer mentorship, affinity spaces, and campus leadership.
- Experience – We create community—hosting events and programs that celebrate who you are and connect you to people who uplift and inspire you.
CIES is a hub where your lived experience matters. Everything we do is designed to affirm who you are and help you thrive—academically, socially, culturally, and spiritually.
Programs
CIES programs range from support for identity-based student organizations to cultural heritage month programming to cultural immersion excursions. CIES administers a book fund and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) plans. The CIES Graduation Celebration and the Explorers Program are other highlights of CIES programming.
Explore Luther OpportunitiesStudent Organizations
CIES works with the student organizations Asian Students and Allies (ASAA), Beta Theta Omega (BTQ), Black Student Union (BSU), International Students and Allies (ISAA), Latines Unides, Luther Disability Alliance (LDA), and the People for the Rights and Inclusion of Diversity and Expression (PRIDE).
Student OrganizationsExplorers Connection Program
The Explorers Connection Program is a dynamic experience that matches first-year students with a peer mentor (Navigator) and a faculty/staff/community guide (Lighthouse). Together, they form a triad that anchors students’ first-year experience and continues throughout their four years at Luther.
Explorers Connection ProgramUpcoming Events
Featured Stories
Luther College senior Megan Oliver spent the summer interning with Hälsa International in Togo, “a non-governmental organization based in West Africa that provides free access to education and health care to underprivileged children.”
This May and June, Luther College professor Dan Davis will take two different groups of Luther students on excavations: Robert Muller, Anna Luber and Zachary Ziarnik, will accompany Davis to Caesarea, Israel, where they will help launch a new, multi-year excavation, and Collin Carpenter and Alex Aakre will help Davis with artifact processing in Southern Greece. Davis is a classical archaeologist who focuses on both ancient shipwrecks and harbor sites in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions.