Members of the NIU community soon will have the opportunity to hear presentations on multicultural curriculum transformation given by faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines, including nursing, history, business and education. These events are the result of the presenters’ participation in the 2013 Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute. The institute, which took place...

NIU’s Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, organized by the Committee on Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and sponsored by the Provost’s Office, will be held from from Monday, May 13, through Friday, May 17, in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center. Twenty-one members of NIU’s instructional faculty will participate. Each participant will revise the syllabus for an...

The deadline for applications for the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute has been extended to Friday, Jan. 25. Information about applications for the institute is available online. Applications should be submitted electronically to [email protected] The 2013 institute, organized by the Committee on Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and sponsored by the Provost’s Office, will take place from May 13...

For over a decade the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute has provided faculty with ideas and scholarly resources to make their courses more inclusive of people traditionally under-represented in the curriculum.

NIU’s Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, organized by the Committee on Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and sponsored by the Office of the Provost, will take place from May 13 to May 17 next spring at the Holmes Student Center. The purpose of the institute is to provide faculty and instructors with information, guidance and inspiration to transform...

The Committee for Multicultural Curriculum Transformation is collecting unpublished articles from faculty and staff members for a book pertaining to the institute dating back to 1994. Individuals who participated in or presented at NIU’s summer multicultural institute are invited to submit articles or outlines describing transformed courses, institute activities, goals, methods and outcomes. The book...

Members of the NIU community will soon have the opportunity to hear presentations on multicultural curriculum transformation given by faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines. Each of the presenters participated in the most recent Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute. The Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute was designed to facilitate discussion about multicultural issues, to...

The Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute will be held from Monday, May 16, through Friday, May 20, in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center. Twenty-three members of NIU’s instructional faculty will participate. Each participant will revise the syllabus for an existing or new course, incorporating material related to race, class, and/or gender. The keynote speaker,...

Twenty-four NIU faculty members will spend part of their summer transforming their classes to make them more inclusive of race, class, gender and other forms of diversity. The Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, to be held from May 16 to May 20, is designed to assist faculty, instructors and Supportive Professional Staff in revising or developing...

The deadline to apply for NIU’s annual Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute has been extended to Friday, Jan. 28, to accommodate end-of-semester schedules. Hhosted by the Office of the Provost and the Committee on Multicultural Curriculum Transformation, the next institute will take place May 16 to May 20 next spring at the Holmes Student Center. Full-time tenured and...

The latest issue of NIU’s “The Multiculturalist” is now online. This issue announces Maurianne Adams as keynote speaker for the 2011 Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute (MCTI), offers a resource on teaching for diversity and social justice and includes articles on the ultimate goals of, and common misconceptions regarding, multicultural education. It also features the call for participation in next year’s MCTI. For...

NIU’s annual Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, hosted by the Office of the Provost and the Committee on Multicultural Curriculum Transformation, will take place May 16 to May 20 next spring at the Holmes Student Center. Full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty, instructors and supportive professional staff are invited to participate in the institute, which assists participants in incorporating multicultural perspectives and content...