As part of the NCAA's Diversity and Inclusion campaign the last week of October, Monmouth student-athletes, in cooperation with the college's Student Senate organized a pledge drive, vowing to abolish bias and discrimination on the local level. The NCAA and the national Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has taken that one step further.
 
The NCAA and SAAC have rolled out their United as One logo as part of their continuing effort to promote stronger unity and inclusion. The logo includes three different colored hands holding one another's wrists inside a circle with "United as One" at the bottom. Patches of the logo are being shipped to member institutions to display on their uniforms.
 
SAACs from all divisions and the Board of Governors Student-Athlete Engagement Committee collaborated to create a national Unity Pledge and the logo, symbolic gestures to continue generating stronger unity among the NCAA's more than 1,100 schools and nearly 500,000 student-athletes. The three SAAC chairs — Division III's Braly Keller, a former Nebraska Wesleyan student-athlete; Alex Shillow from Division II and a football player at Texas A&M-Commerce; and Ethan Good, a former Division I men's basketball player at Bowling Green — joined Colby Pepper, a former men's soccer player at Division III Covenant and a member of the Board of Governors SAEC, in leading the effort to create the pledge and the corresponding mark. The four also enlisted feedback from their respective committee members.
 
Keller, Shillow, Good and Pepper released a statement regarding the Unity Pledge that said, in part: "The Unity Pledge has been months in the making. We wanted a unified statement written by student-athletes, for student-athletes. We encourage student-athletes, coaches and administrators to use this statement in your conference, campus and with your teams as we push forward for change as a collective group, united as one."
 
A SAAC representative from each division discussed the Unity Pledge and its importance during an episode of the NCAA Social Series which aired Oct. 23.
 
"We want to empower the student-athletes that haven't taken that stance just yet," Shillow said during the series. "We want to continue to support the student-athletes that already took that stance, and we want to continue to keep growing this unity push that we see across the entire landscape of the NCAA."