Office of Cultural Intelligence
We want to move beyond diversity to a framework that equips our faculty, staff, and students to effectively collaborate with each other and the world around them. Only then can they truly become world changers.
Executive Orders and SMU
ÃÛÌÒ½´Methodist University is committed to upholding principles that emphasize respect, fairness, and cultural intelligence. In response to recent federal Executive Orders, the university is reviewing relevant practices to ensure alignment with legal requirements and institutional values. Click learn more to get information on how these Executive Orders relate to SMU’s ongoing efforts.
Cultural Intelligence
The ability to strategically communicate with anyone, anywhere. A revolutionary approach in higher education to ensure that every member of the ÃÛÌÒ½´Methodist University community is equipped with the skills and knowledge to manage and communicate effectively in complex cultural contexts. Learn about the theory and practice that gives SMU's faculty, staff, and students the essential skills to be effective leaders and collaborators, whether at home or abroad.
Training
Strategies that utilize the framework of Cultural Intelligence for Mustangs to have the ability to learn, teach, mentor, collaborate, and work with people to change the world.
Bridge Builders Lecture Series
Providing a platform that creates dialogue for knowledgeable and differing perspectives, people and ideas that reach across divides of gender, race, religion, generation, geographic origin, ability (visible and invisible), class, political ideology, national origin and/or organizational status.