Diversity In A Multicultural Center In Portland State University

The growing need for higher education has necessitated the need for many students seek further studies in a range of international universities and colleges outside their home country with the aim of gaining better education atmosphere.While in these international institutions the students tend to find a different ethnic and cultural group of people and environment that to some extend comes with various challenges. The institution brings together diverse cultures from all walks of life who are required to relate and work together as a group for the common goal of gaining and advancing their knowledge.This may pose a challenge for the majority of the international students because they will have to adjust accordingly in order to fit in

Multicultural center in Portland state university is one among the top universities that receives a huge number of international students from different cultures and aims at developing cultural aptitude through student engagement and meaningful dialogue. This paper will focus on analyzing different challenges that international students face while pursuing their academic dreams in the international universities.Thus addressing and appreciating diversity in culture in the classroom goes beyond beyond the wants of international students by creating a more productive and dynamic learning environment for all students and a most rewarding teaching experience for faculty. There are a range of general norms that are applicable for classroom behavior across the Portland state university. In majority of the universities, classroom cultures are extremely variable and this to a large extend depends on the teaching styles of a specific members of a faculty. Some of the college instructors demand a significant degree of formality while we can experience others who are casual.For instance,the students in US do not always expect homogeny across classrooms therefore, they learn to adapt to various styles of