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September 29, 2000 Purdue workshop offers pointers in intercultural competence WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue Diversity Resource Office and Personnel Services will offer a workshop, "Intercultural Competence: Building a Climate of Respect for Diversity," Oct. 13. The workshop, with a keynote address by Milton Bennett, Ph. D., will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 302, Stewart Center. The event is free and open to all Purdue faculty, staff and students. To register by the Oct. 11 deadline, call (765) 494-7307. Bennett is a domestic and global diversity consultant and co-founder of the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) in Forest Grove, Ore. He is also director of graduate studies for the Individualized Master of Arts in Intercultural Relations program offered jointly by ICI and the McGregor School of Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is the co-author of the revised edition of "American Cultural Patterns" and editor of the newly published book "Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication." In 1995, he was a joint recipient, with his wife Janet, of the Association of International Educators' M. Houlihan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Intercultural Education and Training. CONTACT: Dorothy Simpson-Taylor, director of the Diversity Resource Office, (765) 494-7307, dmsimpson-taylor@purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page