Educating for Inclusive Diversity

Abstract

Charlotte Securius-Carr and Reiner Rohr discuss the efforts of the German-American Fulbright Commission to promote educational and cultural exchange between Germany and the United States in this chapter on inclusive diversity. They present the inception of the Commission’s focus on inclusive diversity; the new program initiatives promoted by the U.S. Department of State, with the support of the German Foreign Office and the German Government’s Transatlantic Program through ERP funds of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy; and their various successful attempts to launch transatlantic dialogues. After more than ten years, they have been able to establish, both at the Commission and among German higher education partners, a firm awareness of and appreciation for the importance of diversity in higher education exchanges.