1. MGT 8800 BRINGING THE OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE TO THE CLASSROOM
Embracing Diversity in the Classroom for Workplace Success

2. While you are listening
Think about:
1. How you can bring the real world into your classroom?
2. What organizations can you visit?
3. What organizations can you partner with for research?
4. Where in the country or world would you like to take your students?
5. Why an experiential opportunity may help your students embrace diversity?

3. How do you define diversity?
It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio- economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.

4. How the Olympic Experience Benefits Teaching Effectiveness of Faculty
Meets University and course objective – Bringing real-world experience in to the classroom ( first question on end of course survey)
Dimensions of Race and Ethnicity
Gender (two over sized suitcases vs. backpack)
Socioeconomic status (money vs. travel experience)
Age (traditional age vs. returning learner)
Physical abilities (traveling with seniors me)
Traditional college experience

5. Who?
The MGT 8800 case experience is open to all MSP and MSM students that have completed MGT 7710 and received approval from their advisor.
Students that are looking for a real-world experience doing research for an international organization.
Alternative to writing the traditional thesis
Some students just
want travel experience

6. What ? This section of MGT8800 will be an instructor lead class
Students will be assigned groups and assigned an actual case study from the USOC
Students will work to together to write a thorough case study as their thesis.
Students will travel to Colorado Springs, Co. reading week and present their case findings to executives of the CSOTC.

7. Where?
Students will be lodged at the Olympic training Center in the same buildings as the athletes.
Program provides an overview immersion into the life of the Olympic and Paralympic movement.
Site seeing in Colorado

8. Details Hilton designed rooms Colorado Springs Olympic training center
Lodging
Dining
Hilton designed rooms
Colorado Springs Olympic training center
Free shuttles
Private meeting rooms with built in A/V for team meetings
Olympic Dining Hall
Dine with teammates for breakfast lunch and dinner.

9. Projects for
Examining the cost to be a “college student-athlete” at Wilmington.
Develop a Campaign to Engage and Motivate 1 million Individuals to donate $100 by 2020 to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation.
 Develop strategies to increase engagement of Team USA fans capitalizing on social media as an economical means to reach 50 million users by 2020

10. How did the project change? (Matt Bendel- Student)
Getting to know your team members.
Logistics
Initial contact with the CSOTC (phone meeting)
What did the student learn from these steps

11. MGT 8800 Colorado Olympic Experience Olympic theme song:

12. Arrival

13. Where Olympic Journey Begins

14. Training Center

15. Educational Experience

16. Workshops and Olympic Archives

17. Classes Downtown Headquarters

18. Meet with Executives at the CSOTC

19. Olympians – Networking – It’s a small world
Jordan Burrough Gold Medal Wrestling Sicklerville NJ
Sandy Stinger –Handball – Gold Medalist – I ran track with her in Willingboro NJ

20. Colorado Springs

21. Seven Falls

22. Cogs Railway

23. Pikes Peak…WE Need Oxygen

24. Olympic Training Center

25. Lodging Its good to be the QUEEN – Gold Medal
Student Housing – Live like an Olympian – In the barracks
Its good to be the QUEEN – Gold Medal

26. The view outside our window

27. Team Building – Axe Throwing –Releasing tension before presentation day

28. You can move mountains when you work together – teamwork – Garden of the Gods

29. Compete like a Paralympian – Volleyball – Embracing Disabilities

30. The Velodrome

31. Presentation Day – What to wear –professional presentation -accountability

32. Join the Olympic Movement

33. How the Olympic experience helped embrace diversity – Student Perspective (Matt)
dimensions of race
Ethnicity
gender
socio-economic status
Age
physical abilities

34. What did you come up with
Think about:
1. How you can bring the real world into your classroom?
2. What organizations can you visit?
3.What organizations can you partner with for research?
4. Where in the country or world would you like to take your students?
5. Why can a experiential opportunity help your students embrace diversity?

35. Wilmu policies on How to set up a trip for your class
Contact
Janice Wardle, Ph.D