Diversity programs for licensure students

The college is committed to recruiting, enrolling, and educating a diverse population of students who represent the overall composition of our society.

Programs include:

• Homegrown Teacher Partnership Project (HTPP), a program to recruit and prepare students of culturally diverse backgrounds as teachers
• Multicultural Teacher Development Project (MTDP), a program to recruit and prepare students of culturally diverse backgrounds for teacher development programs
• Rodney S. Wallace Endowed Scholarship supports native American students who have enrolled in CEHD programs of study.

The Board of Teaching Evaluation Team wishes to commend the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development for its understanding of the central role diversity plays in the educational process.
NCATE/BOT report, 2006

 

The theme of diversity runs throughout UMTC programs. Beyond the more direct concepts of diverse populations, the UMTC curricula expose candidates to a diversity of ideas and viewpoints. Further, they espouse that honoring diversity also involves respect for the variability of race/ethnicity, nationality, culture, language, religion, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, disability status, and human potential. This second aspect of diversity supports and is integral to the first; for example, a classroom with students from diverse cultural backgrounds is likely to reflect a greater diversity of ideas and perspectives.
NCATE/BOT report, 2006

 

August 2007