ABSTRACT
The University of Northern Colorado's Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership (HESAL) is a graduate preparation programme that develops individuals to assume administrative and faculty positions at post-secondary institutions. Over the past two years, the faculty has implemented ways to further develop our students' social-justice and intercultural competence. This included developing a course using indigenous and neocolonial theories to explore (dis)connections between Mexican and Mayan interculturidad and US concepts of social justice while simultaneously prompting students to engage in their own development. The course curriculum blended CAS Standards for Education Abroad student learning and development outcomes and Deardorff's Model of Intercultural Competence. Assessment of intercultural development included course assignments, formal assessment tools, in-class observations, and regular engagement during the week-long experience in Mexico. The professional fields of international education and higher education exist in parallel but rarely intersecting planes.
