Diversity Principles Continued

Diversity Principles

  • Understanding, valuing and affirming the unique cultural, ethnic, and linguistic heritage/treasure of all people, including the plural identifications of individuals and the plurality of nations.

  • Seeing diversity not as a deficit but as an enrichment.

  • Promoting diversity as a dynamic and natural state of affairs.

  • Eliminating all forms of discrimination in the interest of advancing all educational fields towards the benefit of everyone.

  • Exposing and combatting hegemonic ideologies, both subtle and overt, used to colonize and enslave people’s bodies, minds, and spirits.

  • Facilitating the acquisition of values, attitudes, skills, and knowledge that value diversity.