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Center for Leadership & Intercultural Engagement

Striving to influence campus culture by cultivating intercultural knowledge, engagement, and leadership.

Social Change Model

Group

Self

Recognizing and embracing shared humanity

meaningful engagement with others

understanding self and others in context

Academic Integration

Persistence/Retention

Healing

Narrative Change

Developing capacity and efficacy

Learning and sharing

Community/Societal

Graduation & Workforce Entry

creating positive social change on campus and globally

Identity Development Models

Transformational student experience

Intrapersonal Development

Community members become more aware of their own beliefs, values, identities, upbringing, emotions, history, and capital to facilitate self-efficacy and self-authorship.

• Workshops: Intercultural Development Inventory, Everyday Leadership, Leadership Values, Identity Development, True Colors, StrengthsFinder: Discovering and using your Top 5, Values Based Leadership, Myers Briggs Type Inventory, Bringing Your Purpose to Life: Goal Setting, etc.
• Student Networks: Student Based Organization cultural celebrations

Intrapersonal Development

Community members become more aware of their own beliefs, values, upbringing, emotions, history, and capital to encourage/contribute to self-efficacy and self-authorship.

Intrapersonal Development

Building meaningful connections that are affirming and allow for community members with different values, beliefs, perspectives, and upbringings to share and learn. OR Interpersonal development which involves building meaningful connections that are affirming and bridge across differences.

• University 100 Courses (two sections)
• Student Networks: Peer Mentorship & Student Council for Intercultural Activities
• Student Organization Leadership Retreats
• Constructive Dialogues:*
• Braver Angel’s Debates
• Workshops: Building Community, Freedom of Expression, Bridging Differences: Increasing Understanding, Leadership 101: What is Leadership?; What Would You Do? Making Tough, Ethical Choices; Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. More important than IQ?; LEGO Leadership; Positive Conflict Management

*a form of conversation in which people who have different values, beliefs, and perspectives seek to build new ways to understand and interact with each other, even as they sustain commitments to their own principles and Depolarization that increases psychological safety as The shared perception that it’s safe to take interpersonal risks in a group and intellectual humility as The awareness of one’s cognitive limitations and the fact that one could be wrong.

Interpersonal Development

Building meaningful connections that are affirming, trusting, and allow for community members with different values, beliefs, perspectives, and upbringings to share and learn. OR Interpersonal development which involves building meaningful connections that are affirming and bridges across communities.

Community/Societal

Students recognize each others shared humanity and become responsibly connected and committed to a community and society that values, centers, and supports all. Students work collaboratively to build authentic relationships with community leaders on a range of issues that impact local, national, and international communities. Students develop as socially responsible leaders through direct service and action, education and reflection.

Community/Societal

Students become responsibly connected and committed to a community and society that values, centers, and supports all. Students work collaboratively to build authentic relationships with community leaders on a range of issues that impact local, national, and international communities.

• Sustainable Service and Outreach
• Experiential/Study Abroad Trips
• Campus Social Action and Change Workshops and Programs