Student Equity Coordinating Council – 2/25/15 Agenda Special Guests – Lisa and Victor from National Equity Project • NEP – been around for 20 years, mostly working with K-­‐12 so far, but recently hearing from other CCC’s • Coaching and Leadership development org. with all levels of leadership • How to organize to solve problems, will, skill and capacity • Work with Equity teams and councils, etc. • Have a lot of questions to start: • What is the impetus of this convening? o Funding and state emphasis in Student Equity Plans to mitigate disproportionate impact • Charge? o Eliminate equity gaps at Chabot o Address persistent gaps in opportunities o Build upon our strengths; identify areas of improvement/strategies that work • Operationalize deeper levels of equity affecting structures • Address issues of privilege, opportunity and use of structures to support conversations • Make concerted efforts, institutionalized to support equity results • A lot of initiatives are small in scale; many students not in a “program” • Approach suggested by NEP: Targeted Universalism • Discussion on serving larger groups, but still focused on target populations • 1800 African American students, 4,000 Chicano/Latino students, etc. • We looked through Data to begin process • What do we know about our students experiences? o Had some “Making Visible” videos that illustrustrated some experiences • What are you most proud of? o SBBC – received national attention/affecting college perceptions? o Lack of African American students in higher level math courses is troubling o Also lack of African American science instructors o Developing new first year experiences and pathways o Got MESA on campus § Changing atmosphere; more studying going on § Branching out of supports also from core services § Energizes faculty as well o Daraja, Puente, SBBC are also contributing significantly to this culture of institutional support along with CIN, FYE – people care o Value and IR data expertise and voice of the student matters too o Hope to keep voice of students involved going forward too o ECD commitment to lab schools in district o People of color in leadership positions o What have we not talked about that we want to? § Larger plan together § Being clear with ourselves that often folks who need to be engaged are not engaged § How to help folks adapt new pedagogy to support equity in learning § “I don’t see color/race” issue § Faculty autonomy – how permeate this culture? § How to address discouraging dynamics? § Not having college-­‐wide equity pro. Development days § Addressing unconcious bias § Subject area expertise, but not necessarily culturally-­‐relevant teaching o How to deal with design that thwarts equitable outcomes? o Pedagogy, diversity, equity training…. o What do we want to get better at? § Awareness -­‐ What we are not seeing § We are in a moment of opportunity § Classroom level work and institutional work § Nuance the momentum points for different student pop.’s § Address direct problems such as poverty, scheduling, § Individual and Institutional change can be hard § Would we want to design a professional development days on equity? § Math faculty feeling downtrodden; how to support? § Analogous to relationships; feelings involved § Level of awareness on individual experiences is sometimes divergent § Blaming, shaming not a good change strategy… § Our diverse students are here…how § Want to be able to explain “equity” effectively definition translated into discrete projects for implementation § Equity is the how part of achieving our Strategic Plan § Seeing diversity in all areas § Supporting families with first generation college students § Cross discipline meetings strategy idea § Let college know what we are shining a light on; recognizing areas generating equitable success §