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Research-intensive higher education institutions are ideal settings in which to develop social change agents who can affect permanent change in our diverse society, as these institutions can connect students with people from diverse backgrounds, invite students to learn about diverse perspectives through formal and informal interactions, and develop students’ multicultural and intercultural competence. The purpose of this chapter was to investigate relationships between college students’ growth in citizenship and two critical outcomes: students’ development of leadership and multicultural competence. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis of a multi-institutional survey of college seniors suggest institutional contributions to students’ citizenship development is positively associated with students’ leadership and multicultural competence.
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Soria, K.M., Johnson, M., Mitchell, T.D. (2016). Pluralistic Outcomes Associated with Undergraduates’ Citizenship Development. In: Soria, K., Mitchell, T. (eds) Civic Engagement and Community Service at Research Universities. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55312-6_9
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