About This Issue
By Kathryn Peltier Campbell, Editor
Welcome to Diversity & Democracy, the
newly redesigned publication formerly known as Diversity
Digest. This issue focuses on Shared Futures: General
Education for Global Learning, a project of AAC&U’s
Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives.
Participants in the Shared Futures project are dedicated
to revamping their general education curricula to emphasize
global learning outcomes. They see global learning as
an imperative component of education for responsible
citizenship.
Through their various initiatives, the Shared Futures
schools are pursuing global learning with resourcefulness
and vigor. Their projects range from redesigning the
general education curriculum to creating courses that
promote social justice both at home and abroad. Their
work deliberatively bridges the intellectual gap between
global contexts and local communities in the service
of creating a more equitable world. The Shared Futures
project complements the work of our other contributors,
which ranges in scope from institutional transformation
to personal engagement. Such efforts have the potential
to be truly transformative.
