Student Affairs Diversity Committee,
February 2010
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Calls for increased skills for student affairs
practitioners to effectively practice around
multicultural issues began in early 1990s.
Counseling psychology was using the term
multicultural counseling competencies,
which refers to (Sue et al., 1992):
 Multicultural Awareness
 Multicultural
Skills
 Multicultural Knowledge
 Multicultural Counseling Relationships
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Overall competency model, including 7 core areas:
 Administrative,
management, and leadership
skills
 Theory and translation skills
 Helping and interpersonal advising skills
 Ethical and legal knowledge and decision
making skills
 Training and teaching skills
 Assessment and evaluation skills
 Multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills
Pope & Reynolds, 1997
 Information
that individuals have about
various cultures.
 Having
an informed understanding of cultures
that are different from one’s own culture,
including knowledge of their histories,
traditions, values, practices, and so forth.
 Allows
for effective and meaningful
interactions, such as seeking consultation as
necessary with people who differ from them
culturally.
 Skills
that individuals use to engage in
effective and meaningful interactions with
those who are from different cultural
backgrounds than their own.
 Attitudes,
beliefs, values, assumptions, and
self-awareness necessary to serve students
who are culturally different from oneself.
 Awareness
of how people’s attitudes, beliefs,
values, assumptions, and self-awareness
affect the ways they interact with those who
are culturally different from themselves.
Why?
 Helps
Our Students
 Can be built into your Work
Plan
 Resume Building
 Intentional Use of Professional
Development Time
 Attend
or view the “Introduction to
Multicultural Competence Professional
Development” workshop.
 Attend
at least 3 multicultural events,
including 1 that addresses each area:
Knowledge, Skills, Awareness
 Attend
the “Multicultural Competence SelfAssessment Workshop.” This will be a sixty to
ninety minute workshop of content, selfassessment tools, and sharing with the
learning outcome to identify strengths and
areas to concentrate on for further training.
 Attend
8 campus events, with at least one
from each area: Knowledge, Skills, Awareness
 MULTICULTURAL
KNOWLEDGE
 Soup and Stories
 UNCW Presents Arts & Action/Lecture Series
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MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS
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Privilege Walk
HRL’s Tunnel of Awareness
 MULTICULTURAL
SKILLS
B-GLAD Ally Training
 Coffee Breaks such as “How to have Political Conversation”
 Maura Cullen Staff Training
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 Campus
Events will be pre-rated
 Other campus events
 Professional conference activities
 Sign
Up Sheets
 Email to SADiversity@uncw.edu
 Send us a program copy or description in
campus mail
 Intro
session at Div. Meeting
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K event: Soup & Stories: Vice Chancellor
Leonard, Women Leaders in Higher Education
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S event: Case Study Brown Bag
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A event: Vagina Monologues (K or A event- you
use it as an A)
 Earn
basic certificate
 Attend “Multicultural Competence SelfAssessment Workshop”
 Director invites an Awareness staff
development program (1)
 Attend Skills Workshops: Safe Zone (1)
 Facilitate Orientation small group (1)
 Attend Knowledge programs: UNCW Presents
lecture, film, and Soup and Stories (3)
 Attend Awareness programs: Take Back the
Night, Game of Oppression (2)
 If
you facilitate, it’s an “S”
 Update on status half-way through semester.
 Departmental trainings are an option.
 Credit for sessions will roll forward by
semester.
 Self-assessment trainings for advanced will
be offered monthly.
 B-GLAD is a skill session. We’ll grandfather
that in. All else will start in Jan. 10.
 We will aim to offer multiple sessions to
spread out opportunities.