d. She visit Multicultural Relations where she can become involved in cultural activities and be assigned an upper-class student mentor.
DISCUSSION
UMSL is a diverse campus with students from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds coming together to pursue higher education. For some students, this may be the first time that they have encountered such diversity. The Faculty plays a vital role in assisting students in learning ways of mastering the University climate. While it is true that the student might adjust with time, a faculty member can be more proactive in recommending some potential actions that might be helpful. At first glance, the faculty member might want to refer students to the Office of Multicultural Relations, but that referral might feel limiting and would be based on the assumption that because of the student's ethnicity, the best fit would be the Office of Multicultural Relations. A more appropriate course of action is to use the Student Planner as a resource guide to show the student the wealth of opportunities for campus engagement and make a referral to The Office of Student Life in 366 Millennium Student Center. http://www.umsl.edu/~uhwcs/ or http://www.umsl.edu/~mcraa/index.html
Finally, the classroom provides an opportunity for learning interpersonal skills as well as academic content. In class, then, faculty are encouraged to use teaching techniques that promote interactions and discussions such as icebreakers, dyadic discussions, and group work. In this way, the whole group can be broken into smaller subgroups which invite discussion and promote students' engagement with one another.
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