In 2012, North Carolina State University launched a campus-wide linguistic diversity program, “Educating the Educated,” with a goal of engaging the campus community about language as a key element of diversity and increasing general knowledge of language and dialect differences. The program has successfully grown over the past several years since its launch, in large part due to the leadership efforts of the program’s student ambassadors. Student ambassadors are involved in peer education on campus, seek out opportunities to engage the campus and local communities, and develop partnerships on campus with existing organizations to enhance diversity education efforts with the inclusion of language diversity. A majority of these student ambassadors are graduate students in the linguistics Masters program. In this paper, we discuss the importance of the student ambassadors to the success of the program in terms of their contributions and advancement of program objectives. We also highlight the importance of graduate students being engaged on their campus, drawing from higher education research literature on graduate student engagement and the critical role it plays in academic and professional development.

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研究生参与校园语言多样性计划的重要性

2012 年，北卡罗来纳州立大学启动了校园范围内的语言多样性计划，“教育受过教育的人”，目标是让校园社区了解语言是多样性的关键要素，并增加对语言和方言差异的一般知识。自启动以来，该计划在过去几年中取得了成功，这在很大程度上归功于该计划的学生大使的领导努力。学生大使参与校园同伴教育，寻找机会让校园和当地社区参与进来，并在校园内与现有组织建立伙伴关系，以通过纳入语言多样性来加强多样性教育工作。这些学生大使中的大多数是语言学硕士课程的研究生。在本文中，我们讨论了学生大使在他们的贡献和项目目标的推进方面对项目成功的重要性。我们还强调研究生参与校园的重要性，借鉴高等教育研究文献中关于研究生参与及其在学术和专业发展中发挥的关键作用。