• Inter-cultural – linking students across all continents
• Communicative – teaching diverse languages and just community change
• Competence – expanding communities of learning and empathy

IC3 draws together students across cultural and political lines to implement a learning strategy for fair and just development. For campuses that are committed to an inter-cultural relationship among students, IC3 offers a five-year curriculum of language and development studies by which students near and far become co-mentors.

IC3 hones the attention of students – whether from superpower or developing countries – on ten development questions that they face in common. Their shared concerns become a venue for thinking critically about how all people seek to craft just and lasting change for their communities and the world.

IC3 expands a universal sense of community education by linking the particular goals of culture, language, and development studies in different lands. The hope within IC3 is that students will learn to love the role of co-mentoring one another. In so doing, each person can diminish the sense of “they” and increase the conviction that “we” can learn from and enrich one another’s lives.