We are proud to introduce SALAD—a workshop experience for student leaders interested in learning how to better lead and serve a diverse campus community.
Trained facilitators are sent to your campus to lead students through exercises and discussions aimed at encouraging them to consider the challenges and issues of serving a diverse student body.
They explore the stereotypes, misconceptions and communication barriers that prevent many student organizations from working cooperatively. By the end of the workshop, students are cooperating to develop an action plan that will keep them working together toward a more supportive, stronger campus community.
Student leaders will get to know one another and make connections that will help them tackle the important issues facing your campus and their fellow students.
Curriculum Highlights
Dominant Impressions©
Progress can’t be made toward community until we get all the stereotypes out on the table. This exercise was designed to bring out the “dominant impressions” that students have of each other’s organizations. Getting these out sets a tone of honesty throughout the day. It also generates a tremendous desire for discussion.
SALAD Bar Lunch Activity
The meal is an activity in itself. It will get students thinking about disparities that exist in resources between organizations—whether they be financial, membership, advising or others. The activity also exposes how groups deal with these disparities in resources (ignore, become resentful, attempt to equalize, etc.).
Personal Reflections Questions
This personal activity allows students to think about some of the issues that have been raised in the morning sessions and answer some questions in a journal format before lunch.
Values Activity
Students often focus solely on the differences between their organizations. This activity gets students to focus on those values they share. It reminds them that student organizations have basically the same purposes at their cores and that by working together, we can create stronger unity among all student leaders on campus.
Action Plan
After all the discussions, now what? Students will take part in an action planning process with action items to accomplish and specific things they can do to improve the campus community.
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