COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE
Cultural Competence and Equity
Committee
AGENDA
February 12, 2009
3:00 PM
CASSL
1. Winnie welcomed Rich Shintaku, Kathryn Mayo, Christina Alvarado, Shaylah Garcia, Kathy McLain,
Kenneth Cooper, Frank Condon and BJ Snowden to the meeting.
2. Approval of Minutes – Minutes were approved by consensus
3. Cultural Events Sub-committee update: Kathy indicated that the committee had reviewed and
approved modified budgets for Women’s History Month and Cesar Chavez Day. A proposal for Earth
Day had been received and is in the process of being reviewed. Several issues related to the cultural
event review process were discussed including:
• the need to ensure that Winnie receives the formal notification of funding email
• a request from the Cesar Chavez committee regarding modifying its initial allocation. They have
requested that the money that had been allocated as partial payment for the Aztec Dancers
($400) be reallocated to fund the creation of a silk screen poster, which was not supported in the
original allocation. The committee agreed that they should be able to resubmit an amended
request. However, the committee concurred that more detail needs to be provided about the role
and importance of the posters to the event and the attendees. In particular, they need to
provide more detail about the relevance of the posters, the number of posters that will be
obtained at the given cost, how the poster will be utilized during the event, and what they see as
the anticipated benefit of the poster to attendees. Kathy will send the event coordinators an email
with this information.
• sub-committee members and participation. There was a concern about whether subcommittee
members who were not actively participating should be removed from the sub committee so we
could ensure we have a timely response to proposals. It was decided subcommittee members
indicate when their workload is such that they will not be participating in the review as soon as
they receive the proposal and the review deadline. If too many people opt out Kathy will send out
an email indicating that there is not a quorum of reviewers. BJ suggested that we have an
observing member who can step in to participate as needed. He also volunteered to be added to
the subcommittee if he is needed.
4. FLEX, Adjunct Meeting, Convocation follow-up dialogue – Assessing the cultural competence
components -– what aspects of the two days supported the goals of our committee? What impact
have you observed or experienced related to these program components? Committee members
identified the following aspects:
• diversity of the students in Mosaic Ohana and the alumni panel
• diversity of learning styles in the skit
• diversity of assessment approaches in the skit with the staff
• alumni panel illustrated the diversity of programs at the college and the power of the school to
change lives
• selection of the alumni demonstrated sensitivity
• the use of different communication media demonstrated cultural competence
• the FLEX diversity of activities and topics was rich and varied and needs to continue – not just
focused on skill enhancement
• featuring of an area on campus (photography)
•
the work of the photography students
Winnie asked who/what was missing. The following aspects of diversity were noted as minimal,
missing or not explicit: disabilities, participation of classified staff, age diversity, religion (appeared
minimally), and sexual orientation/identity
5. Are we going to sponsor a cultural event – if so, what, when and how? It was decided that we would
host a post-play discussion about All My Sons. The idea of co-sponsoring this with the Academic
Integrity Committee was mentioned (since the play is about integrity). Several dates were discussed,
but it seemed that a Thursday night remains the best option for students. Frank and BJ will work with
Ellen to identify a date. The discussion of whether we would sponsor a cultural event (such as
Harvest) in the fall was tabled until the next meeting.
6. Framing future agenda items – this was tabled until the next meeting
 Strategic Planning
 Assessment and modification of Cultural Event Proposal Process
7.
Other