Presently, three educational institutions and a non-governmental organization are co-drafting this IC3 curriculum to serve each other’s need for more profound and relational studies in culture, language, and development. While this project began as a Vietnamese-U.S. student and faculty exchange, IC3 has since grown to include an expanded sense of community learning to include many lands.

While our regional identities are particular, our shared global identity links our pursuit of deeper learning. An Giang University and Can Tho University are the two primary public universities of Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Eastern Mennonite University is a four-year liberal arts institution in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Located about two hours south of Washington D.C., EMU’s historic roots are in the peace-oriented community of the Mennonite Church (USA). Future Generations is a non-governmental organization headquartered in Franklin, West Virginia. Its field work, however, stretches from Andean villages in Peru to communities in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its goal is to serve as an international education program of equity, empowerment, and best practice in just and lasting community change and conservation.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of yet another international non-governmental development organization, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), which granted us seed money to establish and test pilot chapters of this curriculum. Since this seed grant some three years ago, our co-mentoring has expanded to include educational partners in dialogue and collaborative study. The Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute in Qom, Iran is our newest collaborator. And beginning this summer, Payap University’s Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture in Chiang Mai, Thailand and the Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre in Hong Kong’s New Territories will augment our IC3 learning. So, too, we are now very pleased to receive the scholarship assistance for faculty upgrading from the United Board of Christian Higher Education.

Hence students involved in this project benefit from the missions and strengths of diverse educational and non-governmental institutions. Together these organizations show that our path toward just and lasting community change and conservation depends on keen and compassionate partnerships. We welcome further collaboration with other individuals, foundations, faith-based communities, and organizations in support of scholarship, inter-cultural exchange, just development, and pedagogical insight. The goal is for participating students to be able to examine deeply online and in-person shared development concerns of wealthy industrialized countries and developing nations, alike.