Engaging Diversity to Support Intercultural Competence

Confernece PresentersAmy Lee (department chair and associate professor) Rhiannon Williams (research associate), and Cathy Wambach (associate professor) from the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning and Marta Shaw (OLPD Ph.D. candidate) presented a workshop entitled Engaging Diversity to Support Intercultural Competence at the Institute of Educational Policy at Warsaw School of Economics in Poland February 24-25, 2014. Lee, Williams, Wambach, and Shaw engaged faculty from different Polish higher education institutions in discussions around how they may support the intercultural competence development of diverse students in their undergraduate and graduate classrooms. The dialogue explored the possibilities and challenges that exist in both Polish and U.S. contexts when addressing the critical work of diversity within our classrooms.