Resources for Intercultural Competencies
Original: Resourcesfor Intercultural Competencies
The Intercultural Initiative is a vision of the CCCU board ofdirectors. As part of this initiative, CCCU staff will encourage,support and advance the intercultural efforts that our campuses areseeking to accomplish. The initiative operates under the leadershipof the Comission for Advancing Intercultural Competencies and seeksto address the areas of race/ethnicity, internationalization,gender equity, human sexuality and disenfranchisement. Pleaseuse the following resources as tools forfurther discussion on your campus. If there are othergood resources related to any of these six themes you would liketo recommend or share with us, please contact MeredithDuncan at mduncan@cccu.org or202-546-8713. Thanks!
Background/Commentary
- Commentary: Reflections by Dr. Rich Slimbach
- Paper: A Significant Initiative: Advancing Intercultural Competencies
- Paper: Kingdom Campus: Re-envisioning the Christian College as a Kingdom Resource
- Paper by R. Slimbach: New Self, New Society
- Report: Advancing Intercultural Competencies
- Report: Leadership for Advancing intercultural Competencies at Christian Universities
- Web Link: The American Graduate School of International Management
- Web Link: Film Ideas, Inc
- Web Link: Journal of Intercultural Studies
- Web Link: InterculturalRelations.com
- Web Link: Intercultural Press
- Web Link: Intercultural Studies
- Web Link: Intermundo
- Web Link: Mission Training International
- Web Link: NCELTR Resource Centre
- Web Link: SIETAR-USA
- Web Link: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
- Web Link: World Learning
Race/Ethnicity
- Article: Divided By Faith
- Best Practices: Spring Arbor University
- Curriculum: What's Faith Got To Do with It? The Relationship Between Christianity and Multiculturalism
- Recommended Conference: Annual Conference 2003
- Recommended Readings: Bibliography on Gender in Asia
- Report: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Salary and Other Characteristics of Postsecondary Faculty
- Report: Shades of Multiculturalism in the CCCU
- Survey: 2001 Recruitment of Students of Color Summary
- Web Link: DiversityWeb
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World Religions
- Article: Political Islam and the Roots of Violence
- Best Practice: Union University
- Commentary: National Security Policy, God and Justice
- Recommended Conference: Dialogue of Faiths for Development and Peace with Justice
- Recommended Readings: By Dr. James F. Lewis
- Web Link: The Good Way
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Internationalization
- Article: Missions and the Modern Academy: Education is a Mission Strategy. Plant Universities!
- Best Practice: Union University
- Paper: Global Christian Education as Praxis
- Paper: Globalization, the Kingdom of God and Christian Higher Education
- Paper: The Internationalization of Higher Education: Can the American Experience Advance Peace and Learning in the World?
- Recommended Conference: Brandywine Forum 2003
- Recommended Readings: By Dr. Joel Carpenter
- Report: NAFSA Urges Students to Study Abroad
- Speech: Life In Russia
- Web link: The Institute for Global Engagement
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Gender Equity
- Article: "The Kingdom Has Not Yet Come": Coping with Microinequities Within a Christian University
- Article: Assessment of Multidimensional Self-Esteem: Gender Effects Within a Christian University
- Article: Don't Go It Alone
- Article: Parity and the Presidency
- Newsletter: Perspective
- Paper: Hermeneutics in Pink and Blue
- Recommended Reading: By Dr. Marjorie Gunnoe
- Report: Female Faculty on the Fringe: Theologizing Sexism in the Evangelical Academy
- Report: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Salary and Other Characteristics of Postsecondary Faculty
- Web Link: Campus Women Lead
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Human Sexuality
- Article: An Evangelical Looks at Homosexuality: From the Wesleyan Quadrilateral to a Postmodern Tetralectic
- Article: Campus Student Paper Addresses Christianity and Oral Sex
- Journal: Christian Scholar's Review Vol. 26 No. 4
- Paper: Homosexuality and the Bible
- Recommended Reading: By Dr. Marjorie Gunnoe
- Report of the Ad Hoc Task Force on Human Sexuality
- Web Link: Christianity Today
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Disenfranchisement
- Article: Lack of Aid Will Keep 170,000 Qualified, Needy Students Out of College This Year, Report Warns
- Article: Religion and Politics in South Africa: Christian Churches During the Apartheid Era
- Article: Students in the City
- Article: Urban Studies: Getting Started
- Web Link: Bread for the World
- Web link: International Justice Mission
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Resource Contacts/Consultants
- Cynthia Jane, Union University
- Mary Ann Poe, Union University
- Aleen Ratzlaff, Tabor College
- Ruth Zimmerman, Eastern Mennonite University
