PHOENIX - The PSAC earned an honorable mention for the 2024 NCAA Minority Opportunities Athletic Association Award for Diversity and Inclusion, as announced Wednesday night at the 2024 NCAA Convention in Phoenix, Ariz. The University of Notre Dame was the overall winner, with each NCAA Division also awarding a single honorable mention.
The award represents a partnership formed by the NCAA and the Minority Opportunities Athletics Association to recognize and celebrate the initiatives, policies, and practices of schools and offices that embrace diversity and inclusion across the intercollegiate athletics community. This can be achieved through community service, professional development, hiring practices or programming activities that enhance opportunities for people of diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences.
Key characteristics of award winners include:
- Focusing on the importance and the benefits of managing diversity, equality and promoting a culture of inclusion.
- Raising and deepening awareness of equality and diversity issues, from both an employment and service provision point of view.
- Providing mentoring opportunities and/or programming internally or externally.
- Supporting inclusive and/or diversity related educational/professional development opportunities.
- Implementing creative and inclusive work policies to support the needs of a diverse staff.
- Fostering an environment that celebrates differences.
- Contributions in the last year for innovative initiatives that affect the organization internally or externally.
The PSAC and its Social Justice Task Force work diligently to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion amongst its institutions and beyond. Learn more about the task force and its initiatives
at this link.