What is your college doing to promote diversity?
What is the college in the next county doing?
What are the best diversity practices?
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Diversity and California Community Colleges
72%
18%
8%
47%
24%
21%
8%
UC
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23%
CSU
65%
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Source: California Postsecondary
Education Commission:
First time freshmen from high
schools, 2000
Diversity and California:
Hispanic 5-year-olds as a percent of all 5-year-olds
50.3
48.2
Source: Population
Projections for States by
Age, Sex, Race, and
Hispanic Origin: 1995-2025
45.9
2002
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2005
2010
How do we respond?
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The Diversity Practices Manual
 30 case studies
 Innovative
 Replicable
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The Diversity Practices Manual
How it works:
Description
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The Diversity Practices Manual
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Evidence of Impact/Success
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The Diversity Practices Manual
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Implementation
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The Diversity Practices Manual
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Funding
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The Diversity Practices Manual
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Advice
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The Diversity Practices Manual
How it works:
Contact Person(s)
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Methodology
1. Data Collection
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Survey
Peer recommendations
Data analysis
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Expert recommendations
2. Data Analysis
• Identifying promising practices
3. In-Depth Phone Interviews
• Interviews with project representatives
• Interviews with stakeholders
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Best Practices
• Case studies are examples of best practices
• Many other projects could be added to the collection
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Identifies best practices in:
1. Recruitment and hiring
2. Internal climate
3. External relations
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Finding projects of interest to you
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Type of Project
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Population
“We don’t have a lot
of money. Can we
still do a project?
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Tips for Practitioners
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Review case studies in your area of interest
2. Make comparisons
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Involve colleagues in the review
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Call or visit the contact persons
Tips for Decision-Makers
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Ask key people to review the case studies
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Host sessions to discuss the findings
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Assign people to gather more information
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Include the study in a FLEX Day activity
5. Engage the community
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Host a PowerPoint presentation
The Big Picture
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What does the big picture look like?
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What kinds of patterns did CCSF detect?
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Five themes ran across the case studies
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Themes
1. Expansion of traditional recruitment methods
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Internships
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National advertising
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Community workshops
Examples:
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Internship & placement program @
Southern California community colleges
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Internship program @
Los Rios Community College District
Themes
2. Increase in college-community partnerships
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Community surveys, meetings and listening sessions
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Satellite locations
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Programs targeting different neighborhoods and groups
Examples:
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Listening sessions @
City College of San Francisco
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City government partnership @
East Los Angeles
Themes
3. Creation of diversity advocates
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bringing faculty, administrators, and staff together
around specific project activities
Examples:
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Faculty recruitment @
Pasadena City College
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Museum of Tolerance staff training @
Yosemite Community College District
Themes
4. Funding issues
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Most important sources of funding:
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Partnership for Excellence
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Chancellor’s Office grants
Themes
5. Weak evaluations
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Lack of hard data
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Limited documentation of outcomes
Example:
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Data collection on underrepresented
minorities @ Southern CA internship
program
Future Plans
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Conference presentations
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Promoting Diversity manual
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Interactive website
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