Webinar

Checking In with the Skill of Intercultural Communication

The sixth webinar in the AAC&U-CILMAR Global Learning Webinar Series.

May 14, 2025
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Intercultural communication is essential for fostering understanding and collaboration in our interconnected world. Developing intercultural communications skills enables learners to approach cultural differences with thoughtfulness and skill, enhancing their ability to communicate effectively across diverse contexts. This webinar explores strategies for helping students build these competencies, bridge cultural divides, and cultivate meaningful connections.

AAC&U’s Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric provides a framework for understanding and assessing intercultural communication as a key component of intercultural competence. This session will explore how intercultural communication skills are developed, evaluated, and strengthened in educational settings. Facilitators will offer practical strategies for applying the rubric to help you effectively navigate cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication across academic, professional, and personal contexts.

What You'll Gain by Attending

  • The ability to define intercultural communication as a critical learning outcome and articulate its importance in preparing students for global engagement.
  • The skills to leverage the VALUE rubric for assessing student progress in intercultural knowledge, competence, and communication.
  • Practical strategies to create activities that strengthen students' ability to navigate cultural differences and communicate effectively in diverse contexts.

Presenters

  • Kelsey Patton

    Intercultural Learning Specialist at the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR); Communications Specialist at the Susan Bulkeley Butler CenterPurdue University

  • Basma Ibrahim DeVries

    Professor of Communication StudiesConcordia University

Moderator

  • Dawn Michele Whitehead

    Dawn Michele Whitehead

    Vice President, Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and CareersAAC&U

About the VALUE Rubrics

The VALUE Rubrics are open educational resources designed to assist educators in evaluating students' original work across 16 broad, cross-cutting learning outcomes. The rubrics provide a common language for discussing and assessing student learning and enable institutions to measure progress reliably and consistently.  The VALUE rubrics have been downloaded more than 800,000 times across nearly 3,000 institutions in more than 150 countries.

About the Series

“Checking in the Skill of Intercultural Communication” is the sixth in a seven-part series of AAC&U webinars presented in partnership with the Purdue University Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR). This series provides professional development on facilitating and assessing global learning and intercultural competence using AAC&U VALUE rubrics.

To learn about and register for the last webinar in the series, or to view recordings of previous webinars, visit the series website.

If you have questions about the series, please contact Annette Benson at abenson@purdue.edu.