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Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington President, Washington Consulting Group

Insisting on Equity: Beyond the Illusion of Inclusion. Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington President, Washington Consulting Group Founding Faculty, Social Justice Training Institute April 25, 2009. Getting Started. What’s Up? What brings you here today?

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Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington President, Washington Consulting Group

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  1. Insisting on Equity: Beyond the Illusion of Inclusion Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington President, Washington Consulting Group Founding Faculty, Social Justice Training Institute April 25, 2009

  2. Getting Started • What’s Up? • What brings you here today? • What do you see as look around that has it necessary for us to spend this time together? • Hopes for our time together… The Washington Consulting Group

  3. Intentions • A Common Language • Diversity Journey In Education • “Illusions of Inclusion” • “Insisting on Equity” • Wrap Up The Washington Consulting Group

  4. Diversity Multiculturalism Interculturalism Social Justice A Common Language All Difference as Equal Difference in Cultural Norms Promotes Dialogue and Mutual Exchange Power, Privilege, Entitlement: Internalized Oppression and Dominance In order to Creating Equity Inclusive Excellence The Washington Consulting Group

  5. Individual Awareness and Skill Building: Staff, Faculty, Students Develop Subordinated Group Members Systemic Assessment and Organizational Change: Policies, Procedures, Programs, Norms, Unwritten Rules The Diversity Journey In Education

  6. Develop Dominant Group Members Individual Awareness and Skill Building: Staff, Faculty, Administrators, and Students Support and Development Subordinated Group Members Systemic Assessment and Organizational Change: Policies, Procedures, Programs, Norms, Unwritten Rules… Creating Inclusive, Socially Just EducationalEnvironments

  7. Jamie’s Top 10 Illusions of Inclusion: • Diversity Statements and No Plan. • Diversity Plans and No Accountability. • Diversity Positions with little or no staff, budget or power to make institutional change. • Increased numbers and low to no retention. • Knowing “diverse” people but never engaging the “difference”. • Cognitive knowledge of current social justice scholarship with no relationships. • No overt acts of oppression as the reason to focus on similarities. • Success in one area of diversity and therefore everything is good. • Lots of diversity programs, students and faculty organizations, and no partnerships and collaboration. • The Election of “President Barrack Obama”. • Others… with Jamie Washington

  8. Multicultural Change Process “Insisting on Equity” • Awareness • Who am I? • What I’m carrying ? • Knowledge • Information • History, Present, • Future, Dynamics • Theories and Models • Skills • Engaging • Diagnosing • Intervening • Action • Shifting Status Quo The Washington Consulting Group

  9. Moving Beyond “Either” “Or” To “Both” “And” Quiet the Other Ducks The Washington Consulting Group

  10. Rev. Jamie Washington, M.Div.,Ph.D. President and Senior Consultant Founding Faculty: Social Justice Training Institute 410 655 9556 dr.jamiewashington@comcast.net www.washingtonconsultinggroup.net www.sjti.org The Washington Consulting Group

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