Diversity & Democracy: Current Issue

Diversity and Democracy, Spring, 2016
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Current Issue

Spring2016Vol.19No.2

Working Collectively across Differences

College students should have significant practice solving complex problems with diverse groups of collaborators in order to prepare for the challenges they will face in the workplace and in civic life. This issue of Diversity & Democracy contains articles highlighting courses, programs, and initiatives where students are engaging in such collaborative problem-solving across differences.

Table of Contents

From the Editor: Working Collectively across Differences

By Kathryn Peltier Campbell, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Working Collectively across Differences

Building Capacity for Inclusion by Working across Differences: An Institutional and Societal Imperative

By Kathleen Wong(Lau), University of Oklahoma

Campus-Community Partnership: A Stubborn Commitment to Reciprocal Relationships

By Darby Ray, Bates College

Working across Professional Roles to Transform Community Colleges and Broad-Access Universities

By Melinda Mechur Karp, Teachers College, Columbia University

Global Opportunities for Cross-Cultural Learning

By Scott Manning, Susquehanna University

Perspectives

Two Months in Denmark

By Regan Breeden, Susquehanna University

Cultural Agility: Leadership for Change

By Autumn Brown, Anti-Oppression Resource And Training Alliance; Nickyia Cogshell, Century College; Susan Gust, Partners Three Consulting Company; Tania D. Mitchell, University Of Minnesota; Sinda Nichols, Minnesota Campus Compact; and Julie Plaut, Minnesota Campus Compact

Research and Assessment

Bridging Worldview Diversity through Interfaith Cooperation

By Benjamin P. Correia, Interfaith Youth Core; Alyssa N. Rockenbach, North Carolina State University; and Matthew J. Mayhew, New York University

Potential, Not Problem: An Expanded View of Cultural Difference

By David Wong and Dawn Simpson Branham—both of Michigan State University

Campus Practice

Working across Differences: A Necessity for Students, Employers, and Society

By Michael White and Karl Lorenz—both of the University of Minnesota

"I Could Be You": Reflections of a CBL Instructor in Cairo

By Amani Elshimi, American University in Cairo

Multicultural Education and Mass Violence: Critical Examination by Two Student Groups

By Julia Carroll and Amy E. Traver—both of Queensborough Community College

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