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Multicultural competence in Student affairs: Certificate/ recognition programs

Multicultural competence in Student affairs: Certificate/ recognition programs. Student Affairs Diversity Committee, February 2010. Background. Calls for increased skills for student affairs practitioners to effectively practice around multicultural issues began in early 1990s.

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Multicultural competence in Student affairs: Certificate/ recognition programs

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  1. Multicultural competence in Student affairs:Certificate/recognition programs Student Affairs Diversity Committee, February 2010

  2. Background • 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

  3. Student Affairs Core Competencies: Integrating Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills • 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

  4. Multicultural Knowledge • 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.

  5. Multicultural Skills • 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.

  6. Multicultural Awareness • 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.

  7. Multicultural Competency Certificate Program • Why? • Helps Our Students • Can be built into your Work Plan • Resume Building • Intentional Use of Professional Development Time

  8. Basic Multicultural Competency recognition level: • 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

  9. Advanced Multicultural Competency Certificate • Attend the “Multicultural Competence Self-Assessment Workshop.” This will be a sixty to ninety minute workshop of content, self-assessment 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

  10. Examples • MULTICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE • Soup and Stories • UNCW Presents Arts & Action/Lecture Series • MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS • 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

  11. So how? • 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

  12. Example: Basic Competency • Intro session at Div. Meeting • K event: Soup & Stories: Vice Chancellor Leonard, Women Leaders in Higher Education • S event: Case Study Brown Bag • A event: Vagina Monologues (K or A event- you use it as an A)

  13. Example: Advanced Cert. • Earn basic certificate • Attend “Multicultural Competence Self-Assessment 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)

  14. Additional Points • 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.

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