Fostering Global Perspective Taking at American Colleges and Universities

Abstract

Students at American colleges and universities do become more advanced in their global perspective taking along all three dimensions–cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal. Their degree of involvement in a number of cocurricular activities and their perceptions of the campus community are correlated with their level of perspective taking on the three dimensions. Student affairs professionals can make a difference when they provide focused and intentional activities, ones that foster specific goals in global perspective taking.