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Gonzaga’s Center for Global Engagement provides a strategic and coordinated space to provide faculty, staff, and visiting scholars with information on programs and initiatives. According to the American Council on Education, an essential element of comprehensive internationalization is Faculty and Staff Support.
Students bring with them a wide range of languages, dialects, and Englishes. These linguistic repertoires are not deficits to overcome but assets that enrich our classrooms and campus. At the same time, we acknowledge that “Standard American English” remains the dominant language in many academic and professional settings. Part of our shared work is to empower students to make strategic rhetorical decisions, developing the ability to discern when, whether, and how to adapt language for different audiences and contexts. Communication is a shared responsibility.
We also affirm that linguistic discrimination does not align with our core values. We are committed to practices that support multilingual and multidialectal students, staff, and faculty while fostering an inclusive environment where all voices are heard and valued. In doing so, we prepare students to engage ethically and effectively in a global community.
Guided by our commitments to social justice and cura personalis, respect for language diversity is essential to the fulfillment of our Jesuit, Catholic mission. We envision a university where linguistic diversity is recognized as a strength, where multilingualism is valued as an intellectual and cultural resource, and where all members of the community are empowered to communicate with agency, awareness, and respect.
As the primary drivers of teaching and knowledge production, faculty play a pivotal role in learning, research, and service. Their commitment is imperative to the success of internationalization. Institutional policies and support mechanisms ensure that faculty have opportunities to develop intercultural competence themselves and are able to maximize the impact of these experiences on student learning, research, and service.
This support comes in the form of on-campus professional development opportunities and faculty and staff mobility opportunities.
On-Campus Professional Development Opportunities
On-campus professional development opportunities is expected, encouraged, and rewarded. Workshops, seminars, and other programs help faculty and staff build intercultural competence and incorporate diverse and global perspectives into their teaching, research, service, administrative responsibilities, and local-global community connections. Gonzaga supports this best practice by providing the following opportunities:
- International Student Academic Advisory Board a group of faculty that have substantial training/teaching/research in teaching international students in the US higher education system. Our goal is to create more support services for faculty, more information here.
- Global Engagement Faculty Development Fund, provided by the International Education Council.
- International and Transnational Faculty and Staff Affinity Group connects, celebrates, and supports faculty and staff from around the globe by fostering cultural exchange, building community, providing a forum for discussion, and by advocating for faculty and staff with international and transnational roots. This group is open to all Gonzaga community members. For information, visit the ITFSAG page.
Faculty and Staff Mobility
Faculty and staff mobility is recognized as an asset. Gonzaga provides several opportunities for faculty and staff to teach, conduct research, participate in virtual exchange and collaboration, and attend domestic and international conferences. These opportunities are outlined here: Scholarly/Creative Work & Engagement Opportunities.
Gonzaga Language Diversity Statement
International Student Academic Advisory Board: At Gonzaga University, we celebrate the inherent value of all languages and language varieties as expressions of identity, culture, and community. In keeping with our Jesuit and humanistic mission, we recognize linguistic diversity as part of the dignity of the whole person and as a vital resource for learning.Students bring with them a wide range of languages, dialects, and Englishes. These linguistic repertoires are not deficits to overcome but assets that enrich our classrooms and campus. At the same time, we acknowledge that “Standard American English” remains the dominant language in many academic and professional settings. Part of our shared work is to empower students to make strategic rhetorical decisions, developing the ability to discern when, whether, and how to adapt language for different audiences and contexts. Communication is a shared responsibility.
We also affirm that linguistic discrimination does not align with our core values. We are committed to practices that support multilingual and multidialectal students, staff, and faculty while fostering an inclusive environment where all voices are heard and valued. In doing so, we prepare students to engage ethically and effectively in a global community.
Guided by our commitments to social justice and cura personalis, respect for language diversity is essential to the fulfillment of our Jesuit, Catholic mission. We envision a university where linguistic diversity is recognized as a strength, where multilingualism is valued as an intellectual and cultural resource, and where all members of the community are empowered to communicate with agency, awareness, and respect.