In demographically diverse California, it’s important to have the ability to work with people from a variety of different backgrounds. In keeping with our mission-driven commitment to multiculturalism, CSPP founded the Multicultural Education, Research, Intervention and Training (MERIT) Institute in 1991, which takes its current form as the International-Multicultural Education, Research, Intervention and Training (I-MERIT) institute at Alliant.
The goals of I-MERIT are to enhance and support multicultural academic and training activities on our campuses through collaboration and coordination, and to promote multicultural research, interventions, educational activities, and the professional development of students, faculty, staff, and administrators.