It allows a greater range of background and experiences among faculty and candidates to enhance understanding and interaction with colleagues from different backgrounds. In this regard, the unit recruits, admits or hires, and retains candidates and faculty from diverse cultural backgrounds. A plan, which is monitored and revised regularly, may provide guidance in ensuring and maintaining diverse representation. Candidate have the opportunity to interact with adults, children, and youth from their own and other backgrounds throughout their collage careers, and particularly in their professional preparation programs. Candidates, higher education faculty, school faculty, and P-12 students with whom candidates work are males and females with diverse ethnic,racial, language, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds and histories and from different regions of the country and world.
Candidates also have opportunities to work with adults and students with exceptionalities.