Inclusive Community
Inclusive Community is the preparation of students to engage in action, within their communities and work settings, to create an inclusive community.
Students will enhance their ability to empathize with others.
This definition and intended outcomes are currently being developed by the Division's Inclusive Community Assessment Fellows.
Students will improve their intercultural knowledge and competence.
Intercultural Knowledge and Competence is a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.
Intended Outcomes
- Students will increase awareness of how their own identities and cultural perspectives influence their interactions in their local and global communities.
- Students will increase their curiousity about and openness to other identities and cultural perspectives and people.
- Students will increase their self-efficacy and ability to positively engage perspectives and experiences different from one's own.
- Students will increase their knowledge of and empathy for other identities and cultural perspectives.
- Students will increase their ability to communicate verbally and nonverbally across cultural differences in culturally considerate ways.
Students will utilize inclusive decision making.
A cognitive process directed at reaching a conclusion by considering the views, attitudes, values, preferences, identities and cultural perspectives of oneself and others, while leveraging critical and reflective thinking.
Intended Outcomes
- Students will increase the value they place on including diverse perspectives and thoughts.
- Students will articulate the benefits of inclusive decision making.
- Students will increase their ability to identify the identities and cultural perspectives not being considered.
- Students will be attentive to inclusiveness by articulating how their decisions and actions affect others with different identities and cultural perspectives.
- Students will seek to understand, include, and share decision-making with diverse identities and cultural perspectives needed to make fully informed and culturally considerate decisions, while avoiding tokenism.
Students will practice allyship in their communities.
This definition and intended outcomes are currently being developed by the Division's Inclusive Community Assessment Fellows.
If you are interested, you can read more about the scholarship that informed the Inclusive Community educational priority, learning goals, and intended learning and development outcomes.
View the Inclusive Community events and programs (opens in a new tab)on Engage that are provided by the division or student organizations that the division advises.
Thank you to educators across the division who serve as Inclusive Community Assessment Fellows.