Diversity & Global Learning Activities

An undergraduate education should encompass the knowledge, attitudes, and abilities that prepare students to become global-ready citizens, effective members of diverse communities, and lifelong learners. To learn more about this topic, you can read the "Internationalizing the Student Experience: Working Group Report" and view MSU’s Global Competencies, which articulate the Undergraduate Learning Goals from a global perspective.

As aligned with its mission and outlined in its Strategic Plans, the MSU undergraduate experience provides students the tools to effect positive change in their world. This generation of students should be known for the depth and breadth of their individual abilities and for the power of their collective intelligence: including the ability to apply comprehensive knowledge of a discipline, to understand the complex nature of systems, and to navigate among, and lead, members of diverse, multi-functional teams to address complex global challenges.

At MSU diverse, global, intercultural education should stretches beyond facts, figures, and familiarity of other peoples and places; it should involve developing the capacity to use knowledge and skills to improve our practice as citizens, scholars, and workers – whether interacting with diverse others, providing culturally-appropriate medical care, engaging in service abroad, or advocating for equitable, inclusive social policies. Our knowledge and skills are supported by a global ethic: a belief in the valuing of diversity, equity, inclusion, and perspective-taking.

From this perspective, as students, faculty, and staff engage in diversity, global, intercultural education efforts, we must all remember that this learning is not only about content, but rather this concept includes building inclusive classroom communities through classroom and program policies, pedagogies, and practices and embedding global, DEI learning outcomes into the academic programs.

For assistance integrating global and diversity education into your academic programs, please contact Jim Lucas, lucasjam@msu.edu, or Sheila Marquardt, marqua36@msu.edu.