Messenger - Vol. 3, No. 4, Page 11 Summer 1994 CITE initiates multicultural interaction Over the summer, Victor Martuza, director of the UD Center for Intercultural Teacher Education (CITE), traveled to such diverse places as Zimbabwe and Sweden to initiate interaction with faculty and students in other countries. While in Zimbabwe, the associate professor of educational studies arranged for a teacher to come to Delaware for a semester next year, part of an annual effort by the College of Education to host a teacher from southern Africa. "CITE's mission is to increase attention to international and multicultural concerns in teacher education at the University," says Charles Marler, associate director of CITE and associate professor of educational studies. According to Marler, CITE offers programs and projects for both faculty and students. Martuza's summer travels are part of the organization's International Educator's Program. Another program is Study Abroad, which includes a Winter Session in England and Scotland, student teaching abroad and the new Scottish Semester, sponsored by the College of Human Resources. CITE also offers both internationally oriented and multicultural field trips. In the fall, students may go to New York to tour the United Nations, and, in the spring, they may visit the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. These field trips, Marler says, are organized around important contemporary intercultural themes, problems or conflicts. Other one-day study trips expose education majors to innovative programs for culturally different students by visiting schools in the region. "It's a multi-faceted effort," says Marler, adding that CITE's other components include tutoring students from other cultures, teaching illiterate adults to read, holding speaker series on international and multicultural issues, conducting research and providing curriculum resources for educators. -Gina Poltrok, Delaware '94