The Center provides resources and assistance to the UVM community in alignment with UVM's vision as a higher education institution through the development of skills for educators in the just and equitable instruction of all learners.
The Center focuses on the complex intersections of issues of culture and social justice.
CCP provides resources and assistance to the UVM community in alignment with UVM’s goals as a higher education institution through the development of skills for faculty and staff in the education of all learners’ critical thinking and understanding in connection with cultural awareness and social justice issues. The Center meets these goals by offering support and initiating programs designed to:
•Raise awareness, expand understanding and knowledge, and
•Develop skills for the continued improved and expansion of UVM’s teaching, research and service mission.
•Increase effective assessment of progress towards cultural competency
The Center for Cultural Pluralism's (CCP) mission is to equip faculty, staff and students with the cultural and social justice competencies necessary to function at their best in their intellectual, leadership and pedagogical practices, sot he University can provide the highest equality of education.