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Diversity and Intercultural KnowledgeFYE 100Strategies for College Success

Diversity and Inclusion at OCTCLewatis D. McNeal, MPHFYE 100 Fall 2015

What does it mean to be diverse?

How do you define diversity?https://youtu.be/Lmj9HnbdhTc

Is everyone using the same definition?

How does your definition of diversity differ from others

What is Inclusion?What does it mean to be inclusive or to have inclusion?

Is the practice of fully bringing value to the diverse backgrounds, characteristics and skills inherent in everyone person with the organizations.

Diversity and Inclusion at OCTCThrough the implementation of a comprehensive diversity plan, we seek to provide a campus environment that promotes and celebrates multiculturalism and provides members of the campus community with the opportunity to contribute and participate in the enrichment of the multicultural experience on the OCTC campus.

ExerciseLook at the picture pictures and think about your first impression of the photo you see. Is it positive? Negative or neutral?

Timothy McVeigh

Convicted and executed for the bombing of the Federal Building in 1996 in Oklahoma City, OK

Kweisi Mfume

Politician and Former President of the NAACP

M.Night Shyamalan

Hollywood Movie Director: The Village, The Happening, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable

John-Allen Muhammad

DC Sniper: Tried and convicted in the DC sniper killings. Sentenced to death and executed.

Ross Bagley

Actor: Played Little Nicky in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Parminder Nagra

Actress from the movie Bend It Like Beckham

Jiten Shah

Director of Green River Area District Development (GRADD) in Owensboro

Marissa Mayer

New CEO of Yahoo

Wade Michael Page

Killed six Sikh worshipers and himself at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin in 2012

Culture: All knowledge and values shared by a group.Cultural rules and biases: Boundaries within which an individual operates in order to feel a sense of belonging to a society or group, based on the values shared by that society or group.FYE 100Strategies for College Success: Need 2 Knows 6-2 & 6-3

Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another by imagining his or her perspective (not by assuming the persons position).Intercultural experience: An interaction with an individual or groups of people whose culture is different from yours.

FYE 100Strategies for College Success: Need 2 Knows 6-4 & 6-5

Intercultural/cultural differences: The differences in rules, behaviors, communication, and biases, based on cultural values that are different from one's own culture.Worldview: The cognitive and affective lens through which people construe their experiences and make sense of the world around them.

FYE 100Strategies for College Success: Need 2 Knows 6-6 & 6-7

Suspend judgment in initial interactions with culturally different others, postponing an assessment or evaluation (positive or negative) of interactions with people culturally different from one self.Disconnect yourself from the process of automatic judgment and take time to reflect on possible multiple meanings.

FYE 100Strategies for College Success: Need 2 Knows 6-8 & 6-9

Horse senseHorace says: You want the best ideasand you cant come up with all of them yourself.FYE 100Strategies for College Success

HorsepowerGetting to know others is work. Not getting to know others is more work.FYE 100Strategies for College Success

Lets go racing!FYE 100Strategies for College Success