Communicating Common Ground forges strategic community partnerships between students from local area schools to create intercultural understanding, address differences in meaningful and tangible ways, and provide crucial leadership in reducing racial, ethnic, and religious prejudice and intolerance in Central Minnesota. Communicating Common Ground has engaged over 255 students from diverse perspectives and backgrounds since its inception in 2006. Students involved in CCG are creative problem-solvers who are invested in maintaining integrity in the midst of difficult conversations; they are mindful listeners and critical thinkers willing to engage in rigorous dialogue about pressing issues facing their communities. The students who participate in CCG are invested in intercultural commitments that seek new narratives imbued with possibility and imagination, and that are based in the recognition of one another's immanent value. Communicating Common Ground, a model of civic engagement praxis, provides a place where student-citizens are building communities grounded in dialogue and agency.

Communicating Common Ground is a group of students from Foley, Sauk Rapids, Tech and Apollo High Schools, and St. Cloud State University students (this year we will also be working with a school in Kenya, Africa).

Students will complete six after school sessions in Communicating Common Ground. SCSU multicultural communication students work collaboratively with high school students to promote diversity education and a positive learning environment by teaching students skills to support each other.

This partnership promotes acceptance and understanding among high school students, as well as allowing students to visit other schools and attend sessions on a college campus. Foley students are committed to this group and spend time after school to meet with students from other high schools to learn important lessons in multicultural communication.

Find out more about CCG!

A great introduction to CCG can be found by viewing the following YouTube video:

https://goo.gl/MdFsNF