Registration is now open for up to 20 community engagement practitioners to join the Intercultural Development Learning Community, a distinctive, cohort-based, pilot curriculum for faculty and staff who want to understand and enhance their intercultural competency. Registration closes on January 10th, 2025.
About the Intercultural Development Learning Community
Over five months of virtual meetings and independent work, participants will create and nurture their own community of professionals dedicated to the tenets of cultural humility. This 20-person cohort will learn about themselves and how their own cultural competencies can be reflected out in their work, positively and negatively. This pilot curriculum and cohort-based Learning Community are full of opportunities for collaboration, shared learning, and professional growth among other community-engagement professionals and practitioners.
Participant Expectations
The curriculum is divided into 10 modules which cover the following content areas:
- Understanding self
- How intercultural awareness impacts our work
- Asset-based approaches
- Bridging across difference
- Creating sustainable systems of support
Participants will be divided into smaller groups based on a similar IDI developmental orientation.
Meeting breakdown:
- Large group check in
- Small group reflection on homework
- Large group report out
- Interactive presentation of current module content
- Review of assignment
- Adjournment
Participants will take the Intercultural Development Inventory, complete the curriculum, and provide feedback to inform the finished product. Throughout this Learning Community, participants will:
- Increase their understanding of their own intercultural development
- Develop awareness of themselves in relation to others in their work as community engagement practitioners
- Build their abilities to bridge across difference
- Uncover ways to identify systems of support
Cost and Eligibility
The cost for this Learning Community is $50 to cover the IDI assessments. This program is available to Campus Compact members only. Community Engagement Practitioners, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend.
Co-facilitator, Lissa Schwander, Associate Professor/Field Director, Social Work Program at Central Michigan University:
My work with Campus Compact this year has me thinking about the space between. In many ways, the work of community engagement professionals represents this space between; between the classroom and the “real world”, between institutions of higher education and the communities in which they are situated. As I’ve engaged the work of intercultural development in the higher education and community engagement space, I’ve come to realize that the work requires unique skills and tools, including those connected to intercultural development and DEIJB. We are piloting this curriculum for community engagement professionals within institutions of higher education to explore their own intercultural development – we invite you to join in the conversation.
For questions, get in touch with Nicole Springer at [email protected]