MA Counseling Program
Diversity – Equity – Inclusion Framework
This framework for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) outlines the program’s commitment to developing and maintaining a multiculturally enriched, just, and inclusive learning environment. The framework also signals our commitment to enhancing multicultural competencies in our faculty and students in personal and professional spaces, including clinical practice.
This ever-evolving document will be central to the transformative change we all seek as a counselor education program. We are committed to working collaboratively with all of The Family Institute at Northwestern University counseling department stakeholders to advance this framework and related initiatives to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive program, discipline, and society.
Mission: In the counseling program, dignity, respect, inclusion, veracity, and equity are the core of who we are. We are unwaveringly committed to those values in all components of this program. Our central mission is rooted in these values. We believe having an inclusive perspective aids in the bettering of an ever-changing diverse community and world.
Vision: Advance DEI via the adoption of (1) the Shared Equity Leadership model, (2) the Northwestern University Inclusive Teaching Practices, and (3) the American Counseling Association Multicultural Counseling Competencies as we seek to honor the diverse identities of our counseling students and the community.
Shared Equity Leadership Model (SEL)
Northwestern Principles of Inclusive Teaching
ACA Multicultural Counseling Competencies
