FYE 100: College Success Strategies Diversity and Inclusion

1. Diversity and Intercultural
Knowledge
FYE 100
Strategies for College Success

2. Diversity and Inclusion
at OCTC
Lewatis D. McNeal, MPH
FYE 100 Fall 2015

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Diversity and Inclusion at OCTC
• Through 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.

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

16. Timothy McVeigh
Convicted and executed for the bombing
of the Federal Building in 1996 in
Oklahoma City, OK

17. Kweisi Mfume
Politician and Former President of the
NAACP

18. M.Night Shyamalan
Hollywood Movie Director: TheVillage,
The Happening,The Sixth Sense and
Unbreakable

19. John-Allen Muhammad
DC Sniper: Tried and convicted in the DC
sniper killings. Sentenced to death and
executed.

20. Ross Bagley
Actor: Played Little Nicky in the Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air

21. Parminder Nagra
Actress from the movie Bend It Like
Beckham

22. Jiten Shah
Director of Green River Area District
Development (GRADD) in Owensboro

23. Marissa Mayer
New CEO ofYahoo

24. Wade Michael Page
Killed six Sikh worshipers and himself at
a SikhTemple inWisconsin in 2012

25. • 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 100
Strategies for College Success: Need 2 Knows 6-2 & 6-3

26. • Empathy: The ability to understand and share
the feelings of another by imagining his or her
perspective (not by assuming the person’s
position).
• Intercultural experience: An interaction with
an individual or groups of people whose
culture is different from yours.
FYE 100
Strategies for College Success: Need 2 Knows 6-4 & 6-5

27. • 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 100
Strategies for College Success: Need 2 Knows 6-6 & 6-7

28. • 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 100
Strategies for College Success: Need 2 Knows 6-8 & 6-9

29. Horse sense
Horace says:
You want the best ideas—and you
can’t come up with all of them
yourself.
FYE 100
Strategies for College Success

30. Horsepower
Getting to know others is work.
Not getting to know others is
more work.
FYE 100
Strategies for College Success

31. Let’s go racing!
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Strategies for College Success