Faculty facilitate presentation and discussion of multiple perspectives on issues through the use of role playing. Education faculty members are personally grounded in the liberal arts, in addition to P-12 teaching experiences. Liberal arts faculty model effective pedagogical strategies. Faculty members in education and the other liberal arts model collaboration and cooperation as they interact with each other and P-12 schools to create an integrated teacher preparation program. Faculty from throughout the institution and P-12 teachers receive a grant to attend an interdisciplinary conference.
Global awareness involves understanding and reflecting on knowledge and issues related to diversity.
Global action involves students utilizing their understanding of diversity to implement positive change within the lives of children, schools and communities. The institution supports cross-cultural sensitivity and affiliation, develops programs that systematically integrate diversity, and encourages faculty and students to think and act globally and locally. Diversity can include ability, domestic and international culture, gender, ethnicity, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. The institution s mission emphasizes the value of global awareness and action. The institution supports a diverse domestic and international student body.