FINAL REPORT_6_15_22_Updated.pdf - Google Drive

issues forums and special topic days provided opportunities for student- directed interpersonal learning. Friendships and interpersonal connections were described as supporting the following: Quantitative data supported these descriptions. Alumni from UWC had significantly higher scores on attitudes towards diversity, multiculturalism, social justice, and openness, and had more diverse friends. Alumni Significant Differences in Average Scale Scores 19 Feeling silenced, disempowered, overwhelmed, or unwelcome Experiencing a sense of loneliness and isolation Becoming a target of criticism Students mentioned effects of cultural and ideological tension across UWC schools which included: Students also described differing priorities, a lack of privacy, and social exclusion as sources of stress. SOURCES OF ALIENATION OR TENSION Despite the prevalence of openness to diversity as a theme, the top source of alienation was “cultural or ideological differences,” such as differences in social or po

saved by

• Thanh Nguyen