The Intergroup Dialogue Project (IDP) seeks to transform the campus climate at Cornell through courses for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. The peer-led courses IDP offers blend theory with experiential learning, and they are designed to facilitate communication across social, cultural, and power differences, in a critical and meaningful way.

Focusing on social identities such as race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, ability/disability, and gender, the main objectives of IDP are as follows: 

• to promote the development of consciousness about social identity, oppression, and privilege; 
• to explore the effects of social inequality at personal, interpersonal, and structural levels;
• to build relationships across differences and conflicts;
• and to strengthen individual and collective capacities to promote social justice and equity.

An IDP short-course for graduate and professional degree students and postdocs was launched in Summer 2016 through a collaboration of OISE, Future Faculty and Academic Careers, and IDP. To learn more about this course, visit the IDP website.