Transcript Diversity Leadership Training National Consortium for

National Collegiate Athletic Association
in collaboration
with
National Consortium for Academics and Sports
Jeff O'Brien
Jeff O’Brien is the Director of the Mentors in
Violence Prevention (MVP) Program – a post he
has held since 1998. The multi-racial, mixed gender
MVP Program is the first large-scale attempt to
enlist high school, collegiate and professional
athletes in the fight against all forms of men’s
violence against women. Jeff has worked with
thousands of student-athletes and coaches/ staff
on college campuses and hundreds of professional
athletes, becoming one of the nation’s most
requested speakers on preventing violence against
women in athletics. He holds a BA in English and
MS in Education from Canisius College in Buffalo,
New York and is currently pursuing a Ph. D. in
Sociology from Northeastern University. Prior to
assuming leadership of MVP, Jeff was the Site
Coordinator for the Athletes in Service to America
community service program. At Canisius, O’Brien
was co-captain during his senior year and a fouryear starter at tight-end. Jeff was inducted into the
school’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
Wanda Wade
Wanda Wade is a native of Seattle, Washington, where she
was a women's basketball letter winner at the University of
Washington, winning a PAC-10 Championship. She
transferred to North Carolina State University where I won
an ACC Championship with Kay Yow and the WolfPack (Go
PACK!!)
She is currently working on her PhD in Exceptional
Education with a concentration on student athletes with
disabilities. She received her bachelor's degree in Special
Education and after a brief stint in the working world, she
quickly enrolled in graduate school at University of Central
Florida where she received a Master of Education-Varying
Exceptionalities, a Master of Business Administration, and
Master of Sports Business Administration. She worked to
develop an extensive background in competition and
events coordination that included working the 2004 NBA
All-Star game, the Pepsi 400 with NASCAR, numerous
sporting events with Disney's Wide World of Sports, the
1999 Special Olympic World Games, the Senior Games,
and The 1990 Goodwill Games. She is the only child to
Carolyn and Bruce Hopp, and grandchild to Dr. LeRoy T.
Walker, President Emeritus of the United States Olympic
Committee, and Chancellor Emeritus of North Carolina
Central University.
Mission
National Consortium for Academics and Sports
…to create a better society by focusing on
educational attainment and using the
power and appeal of sport to positively
affect social change.
National Consortium for Academics and Sports
•Established in 1985
•225 colleges and universities,
•NCAS provides opportunities for current and former student-athletes to continue their
pursuit of higher education, while working in the community addressing social issues.
•27,000 student-athletes to return to school to pursue completion of their degrees.
•12,200 student-athletes have graduated through the NCAS Degree Completion
Program.
•15 million young people with messages of academic excellence, drug and alcohol
education, violence prevention, and race, ethnic, gender and religious diversity
awareness.
•Teamwork Leadership Institute (TLI)
www.ncasports.org
Today’s Workshop
Workshop is NOT:
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Guilt session
Exercise in blame
Absolute statement of who right and who is wrong
Indictment of a person or group of people
The purpose of this workshop is to:
 Increase your personal awareness of diversity
 Build a better foundation for communicating with other people who may differ from
yourself
 Provide a safe and educational environment that encourages respect,
 responsibility, and understanding of co-workers and others.
One of Three
Prisoner
Vacationer
Explorer
NCAA Advanced Diversity Education
Our session today is an awareness raising and
sensitivity program. It is adjusted to fit into a 4 hour
time frame. For a more extensive program specifically
addressing issues such as race, gender or sexual
orientation, your institution can contact the NCAA and
request the Advanced Diversity Education program.
Goals for Workshop
• To create an environment where topics of diversity can be
discussed openly with a high level of comfort.
• To help create an environment where negative incidents are less
likely to occur therefore building a foundation for improved
cooperation, respect, and understanding of co-workers.
• To provide an environment to address and understand a variety of
complex diversity issues that are Safe, Participatory and
Confidential
• To explore personal and institutional perspectives concerning
diversity issues
Today’s Activities
• Today we are going to apply discussions,
through interactive and solution based
exercises.
• We will review some personal perspectives,
terms of diversity, explore the root cause of
separation, explore some group dynamics,
identify diversity challenges and hopefully
offer some solutions.
Ground Rules for Workshop
S.P.O.R.T
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Sensitivity
Participate
Opportunity
Respect
“Time Out”
What’s Your Angle?
• Perspective
Terms of Diversity
(With regards to interaction among people)
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Diversity
Inclusion
Prejudice
Discrimination
Anti-Semitism
Sexism
Racism
Culture
Homophobia
Stereotype
• Submit your best
definition for
each word
Diversity
A collective mixture of
characteristics as they relate to
differences and similarities
Inclusion
To develop an environment that
fosters the attainment of an
organization’s mission by translating
the value for diversity into behaviors
that reflects a quality of thinking at
both individual and organizational
levels.
Prejudice
An attitude, opinion or feeling
without adequate prior
knowledge, thought or reason.
Discrimination
Differential treatment based on
unfair categorization. It is a denial
of fairness prompted by prejudice.
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice or discrimination
against Jews, based on
negative perceptions of their
religious beliefs and /or on
negative group stereotypes.
Sexism
Attitudes, behaviors, and conditions that
promote discrimination against the
opposite gender.
Racism
Racial prejudice with institutional power
that is used to the advantage of one
group and to the disadvantage of
another group. The critical difference is
power and authority to execute
prejudicial attitudes.
Culture
Culture is created from a group of people’s
shared history, ways of thinking,
knowledge, language, art, law, traditions,
and other behavior patterns.
Homophobia
The irrational fear of homosexuals,
homosexuality; it is the fear that enforces
sexism and heterosexism. The extreme
behavior of homophobia is violence.
Stereotype
An oversimplified generalization about a
person or a group of people without
regard for individual differences
Positive Stereotypes?
• Examples
Stereotypes
An oversimplification of a person or a group of
people without regard for individual differences
How can anything, not being the truth on an
individual level, be positive?
Some people do take advantage of
generalizations, but is that a positive act?
Path to Segregation
Racism, Sexism,
Homophobia, etc
..the power to implement prejudice
Prejudice
..attitude, opinion, or
feeling
Discrimination
…treatment
Stereotype
…oversimplified generalization
The Path of INCLUSION
Insist upon a
system that values
“inclusion” of all
perspectives,
thoughts and
opinions
Open-minded
attitude, don’t
depend on others
to assess
someone’ else’s
character
Treat others
with fairness
and equity
Individualism
“Tug of Words” Exercise
1. Ethnic minorities are too sensitive
when it comes to matters of “race”.
“Tug of Words” Exercise
2. Bi-lingual people should speak
English whenever they are around
people who only speak English.
“Tug of Words” Exercise
3. Equal treatment for women is
improving in our society.
“Tug of Words” Exercise
4. If racial derogatory terms are
acceptable for use by people associated
with the terms, it is acceptable for
people outside that group to use the
same terms.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The most dangerous thing in the world is sincere ignorance
and conscientious stupidity
National Consortium for Academics and Sports
Teamwork Leadership Institute
Diversity Education Program
3-2-1…GO!
3 things I learned from the Teamwork
Leadership Institute Workshop
2 things that I will address, change or
be more sensitive to as a result of what
I learned
1 question that I still have about
diversity but will commit to find the
answer to as a result of today’s
workshop