Model United Nations

Cal Lutheran's Model United Nations club and class gives students the inimitable and exciting opportunity to simulate the work of the real United Nations by competing in scrimmages, as well as local and national Model UN conferences. Students are assigned to represent a country and serve on designated committees to work on finding solutions to current global problems, such as the ongoing conflict in the Sudan, child hunger, or safeguarding nuclear waste. Conferences span over several days, during which time students must give speeches on their country’s position and preferences, work to talk with other delegates to build allyships and bring others to their point of view, and also to collaborate effectively on joint resolutions that both compromise on and include their diverse ideas and perspectives.

Model UN participation helps students hone their communication, negotiation, and networking skills, and gain confidence in their ability to imagine and affect positive change. This experience underscores the power of unity and hopes to inspire a profound belief in their generation's potential to address society's challenges.

CLU has participated in Model UN since 1995 when it began as a loose affiliation of interested students. Since then it has grown into an official student club, supported by an optional two-credit class that faculty teach to help prepare students for participation in Model UN conferences both locally, as well as at the national level. All students are welcome in both the Model UN club and class, regardless of major.