‘Global and Multicultural Initiatives’ CategoryPage 2
Study-Away Requirement
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Establish the minimum requirement that all students study-away. Additional explanation: Although studying away does not in itself confer cultural competence, it allows students to encounter contexts different from their own and gives them opportunities for growth. This study-away experience should be designed to match students’ past […]
Hate Crimes Response
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Enhance and strengthen the College’s process to respond, report, and communicate in relation to hate crimes, including appropriate sanctions. Additional explanation: It’s important to acknowledge individual and community impacts of hate and bias incidents and to have a strong institutional response to such cases when they […]
Funding for Study and Teaching Away
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Increase scholarships and fellowships for international study and teaching away from campus. Additional explanation: Seek financial support from alumni, congregations, and other sources. This recommendation was placed in the Cultural Perspectives Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language: Expand opportunities and increase scholarships and fellowships for […]
Parent Orientation
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Establish a parent orientation program that includes diversity education. Additional explanation: Such a program would address important campus issues such as cultural competency, and set the tone for parents regarding the developmental and behavioral expectations of their students. This program could take place at registration or […]
Diversity on Board of Trustees
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Ensure there is strong diversity representation on the Board of Trustees. Additional explanation: Board makeup should reflect the College’s values of supporting all people with a strong diversity representation that reflects all areas of diversity (e.g. sexual orientation and gender identity, immigrant identity, first language, race, […]
Campus Statement on Diversity
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Adopt and strongly communicate a campus-wide statement that defines and actively supports diversity in all its many guises, including sexual orientation and gender identity, immigrant identity, first language, race, ethnic origin, physical ability, nationality, political, religious, socioeconomic, and geographic differences. Additional explanation: Gustavus, in its strategic […]
Commitment to Diversity in Communications
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Infuse written communication internally and externally with clear, strong, and consistent references to the College’s commitment to diversity. Additional explanation: The College must send a strong and affirmative message to Gustavus audiences and the public at large if the College seeks to build diversity and enhance […]
Prepare Students for Diversity
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Prepare students for exposure to issues of diversity by giving incoming students the tools, resources, and support needed to adapt, understand, appreciate, and accept others. Additional explanation: Examples would include a multicultural experience as part of incoming student orientation to introduce and address issues related to […]
Faculty Global and Multicultural Rewards
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Create institutional rewards and recognition for faculty who excel in teaching, scholarship, or service directly related to globalism and multiculturalism. Additional explanation: This might include workshops, grants, mentoring programs, and community celebration of these efforts. This recommendation was placed in the Cultural Perspectives Strategic Framework Substantive […]
Common Space for Center for International and Cultural Education and Diversity Center
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Maximize natural synergies between the Center for International and Cultural Education and the Diversity Center by creating a common office space. Additional explanation: The entities would retain their respective directors and full staffs, but programmatic synergy and administrative efficiency would be enhanced. This recommendation was placed […]