ABSTRACT
In their campus survey, McCauley et al. (2000) found that the most commonly reported workshop activities were as follows: Participants sharing stories of their own experiences with bias or discrimination (reported by 92% of campuses using diversity workshops), group exercises for exploring ethnic differences (87%), writ ten information on handouts (86%), personal contact with minority participants (82%), lectures (75%), discussion of actual campus incidents (73%), role playing or behavioral training (71%), videos (68%), and skits (67%). Notable in this list of workshop activities is the relatively small emphasis given to behavior; role playing or behavioral training is number seven in the top ten activities. In contrast, the number one activity focuses on affective learning in sharing of stories of bias and discrimination. The goal of the workshops, judged by the list of activities, is to change the feelings and beliefs of the participants, both about individual outgroup members participating in the workshop and about the outgroup as a whole.
