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2020 – 2021 NJCAA POSITION PAPERS

All of the following section headers reflect the intellectual beliefs held and affirmed by the National Junior College Athletic Association
(NJCAA) and have been updated in the wake of national events that both impact our Association and provide opportunities for its
character and support of student-athletes to be displayed on a national platform.

NJCAA POSITION STATEMENT ON RACIAL INCLUSIVITY
(as presented at the June 2020 Board of Regents Meeting)

Our country is currently hurting from so much pain, sadness, and anger due to recent events we have all witnessed. As the National
Association for two-year intercollegiate athletics, we offer our condolences to all the families that have lost loved ones due to the
injustice in our country. The protests around the country are symbolic of the centuries of silence, inequality, and the oppression of
minorities in our school, colleges, work environment, and our society.

The reality that the black community lives in fear of anxiety over racial discrimination, prejudice, or violence is unacceptable. To be
clear, the NJCAA has ZERO TOLERANCE for racism and racial injustice.

It is our responsibility to educate and provide inclusivity to all in conjunction with the NJCAA council on diversity and inclusion. The
NJCAA will continue to provide equal opportunities for ALL.

NJCAA POSITION STATEMENT ON LEADERSHIP ROLES OF WOMEN IN TWO-YEAR COLLEGE ATHLETICS

From its inception, the Women's Division of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) has fostered among its goals the
encouragement, promotion and advancement of all women's athletic programs in the two-year college. In order to ensure progress in
meeting these objectives and goals, women of competency and experience, as well as those whose backgrounds have been limited,
should not be excluded from leadership roles. As a group, we are strongly opposed to any and all measures which would remove or
exclude capable, qualified and/or interested women from assuming those leadership positions relating to women's athletics. It is a
specific concern that the Women's Regional Director’s position be held by a woman.

We would strongly urge all regions of the NJCAA to provide access and input from women within their respective regions at each
regional meeting relating to the business and conduct of the Women's Division. In those regions where a few women currently serve in
any leadership capacity, we would urge that a conscientious, active and ongoing effort be made to identify, attract and develop the
leadership potential of women throughout that region.
It is through these efforts that we hope to expand leadership opportunities, promote conscientious awareness and stimulate further
interest on the part of women in the NJCAA and to recognize the significant contributions women can make in the leadership and
administration of women’s athletics.
NJCAA POSITION STATEMENT ON GENDER EQUITY

The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) believes in the value of equitable participation and treatment of men and
women in intercollegiate athletics and through its structure, programs, legislation and policies will promote these values. The NJCAA
will act to encourage its member institutions to assure equity in the quantity and quality of participation in women's athletics throughout
its programs. The NJCAA stands with other athletic organizations in believing, at an institutional level, gender equity in intercollegiate
athletics describes an environment in which fair and equitable distribution of overall athletic opportunities, benefits and resources is
available to women and men and in which student-athletes, coaches and athletic administrators are not subject to gender based
discrimination.

An athletic program can be considered equitable when the participants in both the men's and women's sport programs would accept, as
fair and equitable, the overall program of the other gender. No individual should be discriminated against on the basis of gender
institutionally, regionally or nationally in intercollegiate athletics.