MISSION & GOALS

The Center for Multicultural Education supports, promotes, and advances multicultural inquiry, understanding, and engagement in order to affirm the mission and identity of Edgewood College. 

We strive to achieve these primary goals: assist faculty in developing and utilizing multicultural pedagogy in the classroom, support multicultural research and scholarship, raise awareness of multicultural issues and perspectives in higher education, cultivate faculty's interactions with diverse communities within and outside of the College, provide leadership and consultation to develop and implement multicultural curriculum, and maintain and enhance the Ethnic Studies Program.

Founded in 2004, CME endeavors to advance innovative research and teaching in the study of race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism in the United States as well as global contexts, and to affirm the Edgewood College mission to cultivate a community of learners committed to building a just, compassionate world.  

CME has contributed strongly to faculty development and support through such ongoing programming as Teaching for Diversity series, ALANA Faculty Dialogues, and the newly established CME Distinguished Lecture Series. Committed to the College’s Plan for Inclusion and to community partnerships, CME has been active in multicultural programming for the ALANA history month celebrations, and it has co-sponsored many scholarly as well as community events with programs and organizations at Edgewood and beyond.

CME also administers the Ethnic Studies Program within the School of Integrative Studies.  Each semester, Ethnic Studies offers over a dozen courses cross-listed with a variety of disciplines or programs, such as Anthropology, Art, Communications, COR/Human Issues, Education, English, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Sociology. With over 50 minors, who major in a variety of disciplines, our interdisciplinary minor program has grown to be the largest at Edgewood. As we plan to launch in fall 2012 the newly approved Ethnic Studies Major, we look forward to an even brighter future for Ethnic Studies at Edgewood College.