Intercultural Sensitivity Development: the challenge of Globalization for American Higher Education Mousumi Mukherjee Abstract Issues of social justice are becoming more and more complicated in the wake of Globalization. With his declaration that “the world is flat”, Thomas Friedman (2005) has probably coined the metaphor for the age in which students in the US and the world are supposed to live and work. But flattening all differences and not recognizing the distinctive cultural and ethnic traits of a diverse body of people can lead to grave social injustice and gross misunderstanding. In the recent past we have all witnessed the tragic fall-outs of such misunderstanding across the world. My paper explores and analyzes documents from various sources highlighting the need for intercultural sensitivity development. Thereafter, I use Milton J. Bennett’s developmental model of intercultural sensitivity, to suggest a possible way to develop programs to sensitize students and faculty for intercultural sensitivity development and gain “cultural competence”.