Education for Sustainable Diversity (ESD), as defined by the
Office for Inclusion, is the practice of acquiring knowledge
about and becoming aware of ways in which our beliefs and biases
impact the quality of relationships among people from different
cultural groups around the world. The goal of the Office for
Inclusion is to support a campus community that understands how
to fully integrate the University’s core values of diversity and
inclusion into campus work and learning environments. ESD serves
to provide opportunities for people to better understand the
complexities of and synergies between, the issues threatening
our intercultural sustainability and assess their own values and
those of the society in which they live in. ESD seeks to engage
people in negotiating a sustainable future, making decisions and
acting on them. To do this effectively, the following skills are
essential to ESD: - Envisioning -- being able to imagine a
better future. The premise is if we recognize and begin to
understand the iss