University of the Pacific – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Assistant Director of Intergroup Dialogue and Restorative Practices, University of the Pacific, CA, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 9 April 2025.

Reporting to the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Assistant Director of Intergroup Dialogue and Restorative Practices at University of the Pacific plays a crucial role developing a university-wide intergroup dialogue program for the campus community. This role supports the university’s efforts to resolve conflict, strengthen relationships, and foster a sense of community and belonging by introducing and implementing education, training, and discourse that are grounded in intergroup dialogue and restorative practices. This position works collaboratively across multiple stakeholder groups and across all three campuses (Stockton, Sacramento, San Francisco), providing specialized expertise and programming to promote understanding, healing, and accountability.

What’s Up With Culture? Online Cultural Training Resource, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA.

This open access online course offers an opportunity to explore various aspects of intercultural communication and adjustment models to learn what is required to be effective and comfortable while going abroad and living internationally. It is designed to be part of a student’s training rather than to stand alone, but it provides a good start.

This material was developed to support and enhance a student’s ability to make successful cultural adjustments both before going overseas and upon returning home from studying abroad. It was produced primarily for traditional-aged, undergraduate US-American university students. Those preparing to participate in a study abroad program will find the first seven sections useful while those who are about to, or have, returned home from an international program can refer to the final four sections. The focus is generally on the concept of culture and how it impacts one’s ability to understand and function in a new and unfamiliar environment. It concentrates on the skills, attitudes, and behaviors which all study abroad students, regardless of their specific destination, will find useful.