The Office of Intercultural Education is seeking to build a learning-centered campus community which encourages diversity in all its manifestations as a means to understand an increasingly interconnected national and global environment.
Operating within Academic Affairs, the Office of Intercultural Education recognizes the increasing interaction of peoples from a variety of cultural and social backgrounds and the need for skills to facilitate understanding of those involved.
The duties of the Director of Intercultural Education focus on working with others, both within Academic Affairs and campus wide, to promote curricular reforms which support the College Mission, and to improve College efforts to recruit and retain a more diverse student body, faculty and staff. B-W’s faculty incorporated interculturalism into the design of the LAS 200 course “Enduring Questions in an Intercultural World.” This course began in the fall of 2005 as a common experience for all students. The course is designed to include investigation of cultural differences and their influence on thought processes, values and perceptions in dealing with fundamental human questions
As part of their core requirements all B-W students take courses focused on both domestic and international diversity. Interested faculty are exploring ways to link majors to the core to reinforce themes introduced in LAS 200 and provide a more in-depth exposure to the skills needed by students in the 21st century.
On October 15-16, 2009, B-W will host a national conference entitled “Intercultural Competency Across the Curriculum: Infusing Culture and Language Campus Wide.”(http://www.bw.edu/academics/fll/LAC/clac2009/)
Contact Information:
Office of Intercultural Education
Baldwin-Wallace College
275 Eastland Road
Berea, OH 44017-2088
(Located in Malicky Center, Room 107)
Phone: (440) 826-2311
Fax: (440) 826-3396
275 Eastland Rd.