The hot new term in higher education is “cultural competence,” says Norman Levitt, a mathematics professor at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. But, he warns, the phrase is little more than a ...

Jaime Welborn, Ph.D., assistant professor of educational leadership in the School of Education, brings expertise to the topic of cultural proficiency through her research and practice, and she works ...

Understanding cultural differences and building a culturally competent company isn't just a skill for global businesses.

“I want to be a firefighter, but then I will have to work with the police…and what if they kill me on purpose?” said my son Asher, a second-grader. Coming from an 8-year-old, these words should be ...

After attending a monthly luncheon and hearing some attendees pass on (incorrectly) information about Critical Race Theory (CRT) and how it is affecting students in Caddo Parish Schools, I felt it was ...

Vernita Mayfield agreed to answer a few questions about her book, Cultural Competence Now: 56 Exercises to Help Educators Understand and Challenge Bias, Racism, and Privilege. Vernita Mayfield, a ...

A new white paper by The Beryl Institute visits the importance of cultural competence and cultural sensitivity in the healthcare sector and how they impact the experience of patients, their families ...

As the poet, activist, and librarian Audre Lorde teaches us: “it is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” But how exactly do ...

CMS will soon receive its first private donation to fund the district’s cultural proficiency initiative. CMS started the program last summer and so far most of the district’s principals and a quarter ...

Cultural competence has become a major issue in nursing practice, given the current and projected US demographics as well as the long-standing health disparities in people of diverse racial, ethnic, ...

Two (2) female medical students are working together on a group assignment. They are writing their notes on a laptop and sitting at a desk in a training laboratory. They are both wearing scrubs. The ...