Importance Of Cultural Diversity and Unity in Educational Institutions

Attending university/ college plays a vital role in the life of a student.  Educational institutions with students coming from a diverse background are even better since it helps: 

  • To break stereotypes
  • Improves communication with people from varied backgrounds
  • Enhances the capability of critical thinking

Students generally come from a sheltered background and for those who are already exposed to diverse communities it improves in their overall learning experience in terms of learning to live in a cross-cultural environment.  

Some of the advantages of cultural diversity in a college campus would be:

  • Interacting with fellow students of diverse background will help them learn and understand different customs and lifestyle thus improving their self-awareness.

  • Interacting with people from diverse culture helps improve problem-solving capabilities with a multi-focus.

  • A diverse college experience helps students to face the challenges of the career world from a global perspective.

  • A diverse learning environment helps students to be better equipped to handle their workplace relationships and improves their social skills making it a very enriching experience. 

An educational institution like Invertis University where they have an excellent student and faculty exchange program.  This program enables students to study /conduct research as per their semester requirement / study an academic year at an overseas university.  Invertis University has a collaborative program with foreign universities like University of South Carolina, Livingstone College, Advanced College of Engineering & Management (Kathmandu) and many more.  Apart from the student exchange program it also has a research collaboration with Universities of USA and Germany.

The benefits of studying in a diverse college campus are innumerable.  Economically India is making waves at a global level and it is only fair to equip the youth of the county to be able to handle the challenges of work-life when they enter the career world.  Every workplace has a multi-ethnic workforce and prior experience in dealing will be an added advantage.

A college campus that offers admission for students from a variety of cultural background helps students in improved creative thinking, problem-solving capabilities, a better understanding of diverse culture, better team-handling/ interaction skills, improves social development, ability to work with the diverse workforce in the future of their career,   and enriches global perspective. 

All in all when a college/ educational institution engages in a foreign student exchange/collaboration it opens a multitude of opportunities to its students.  This kind of a program provides students an opportunity to learn at a foreign university/ provide them an opportunity to interact and learn with a foreign student thus improving their social interaction skills with students from various background.  Exposure to a diverse culture and unity with the students of multi-culture at a younger age turns the students into well-seasoned professionals in their life in general and career in particular.


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