Goal 5: Promote intercultural and international understanding
- Objective 5.1 - Incorporate teaching approaches that acknowledge cultural differences and engage diverse perspectives
- Expand service and experiential learning opportunities
- Enhance the use of learning communities as a mechanism for learning and relationship building
- Expand cross-cultural experiences for students and employees
- Engage the Global Center in campus wide learning
- Increase endowed funds to support international and intercultural programs
- Educate students about national service organizations and provide the support systems needed to increase the number of students applying to such programs
- Enhance recognition and incentives for outstanding teaching
- Create recognition and incentives for meaningful curricular innovation
- Improve infrastructure of international programs
- Build alliances with organizations and communities, including partnerships with historically black congregations and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Attract missionary kids through focused recruitment efforts and scholarships
- Develop programs for the discussion of community and societal issues
- Host events to examine Christian responses to various societal issues
- Incorporate case studies, problem-based learning and other teaching methods that raise moral issues
- Objective 5.2 - Create opportunities for cross-cultural conversations
- Expand service and experiential learning opportunities
- Enhance the use of learning communities as a mechanism for learning and relationship building
- Expand cross-cultural experiences for students and employees
- Engage the Global Center in campus wide learning
- Recruit international students
- Publicize our international and intercultural initiatives
- Increase endowed funds to support international and intercultural programs
- Educate students about national service organizations and provide the support systems needed to increase the number of students applying to such programs
- Improve infrastructure of international programs
- Build alliances with organizations and communities, including partnerships with historically black congregations and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Attract missionary kids through focused recruitment efforts and scholarships
- Develop programs for the discussion of community and societal issues
- Host events to examine Christian responses to various societal issues
- Provide leadership in community response to intercultural issues of importance to Alabama
- Objective 5.3 - Encourage scholarly investigations of different cultures
- Expand service and experiential learning opportunities
- Expand cross-cultural experiences for students and employees
- Engage the Global Center in campus wide learning
- Increase endowed funds to support international and intercultural programs
- Increase resources provided for professional development, travel, and grants to support the work of faculty and staff
- Create recognition and incentives for meaningful curricular innovation
- Enhance the course offerings in research methodologies to undergraduate and graduate students
- Increase the opportunities for students to engage in research
- Provide infrastructure for communicating research activities across the university utilizing resources including the Samford University Press
- Improve infrastructure of international programs
- Build alliances with organizations and communities, including partnerships with historically black congregations and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Attract missionary kids through focused recruitment efforts and scholarships
- Develop programs for the discussion of community and societal issues
- Objective 5.4 - Explore the relationship between faith and cultural identity
- Expand service and experiential learning opportunities
- Expand cross-cultural experiences for students and employees
- Engage the Global Center in campus wide learning
- Recruit international students
- Increase endowed funds to support international and intercultural programs
- Identify and coordinate service opportunities that support our mission of faith and learning
- Improve infrastructure of international programs
- Build alliances with organizations and communities, including partnerships with historically black congregations and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Attract missionary kids through focused recruitment efforts and scholarships
- Develop programs for the discussion of community and societal issues
- Host events to examine Christian responses to various societal issues
- Objective 5.5 - Recruit and retain faculty, staff, and students from under-represented groups
- Expand cross-cultural experiences for students and employees
- Recruit international students
- Publicize our international and intercultural initiatives
- Increase endowed funds to support international and intercultural programs
- Educate students about national service organizations and provide the support systems needed to increase the number of students applying to such programs
- Provide infrastructure for communicating research activities across the university utilizing resources including the Samford University Press
- Improve infrastructure of international programs
- Build alliances with organizations and communities, including partnerships with historically black congregations and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Attract missionary kids through focused recruitment efforts and scholarships
- Expand our recruitment base to new regions of the country
- Develop programs for the discussion of community and societal issues
- Celebrate and communicate institutional successes and the achievements of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni
- Develop additional mechanisms for students to share their Samford stories
- Assure continued access for all students, regardless of means, through a strong program of financial aid
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