External Series: USC’s Race & Ethnicity Center Presents “Decentering Whiteness in Pathways”
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Closing-the-Loop: Closing-the-Loop: Outcomes and Program Planning
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Wellness: Managing Return To Campus Anxiety
Facilitated by Glenn Heap, LMFT, Health & Psychological Services Register now here!
External CA Guided Pathways 2.0 Project Event: Creating Classroom Conditions of Belonging and Psychological Safety for Students of Color through Teaching 21st Century Professional Competencies with Diego Navarro
Live stream this event at the following YouTube channel Watch the 10-15-21 Event Live
External Event: Designing for Student Success: Innovations in Enrollment, Persistence and Learning
California Community Colleges are at a critical juncture. Sticking with the status quo won’t cut it in the continued- and post-pandemic environment, where students endure deeply entrenched poverty, and institutions will confront disruptive demographic and mounting competition. In a volatile, uncertain environment, colleges need to be acutely attuned to the shifts that are taking place
External Event-CVC/OEI: Being a Warm Demander: Challenging Students with Relationship-Rich Teaching and Wise Feedback
You will acquire an understanding of warm demander pedagogy (Kleinfeld), which will empower you to leverage your relationships with your students to challenge them through push and care. You will learn how to construct wise feedback and deliver it through video to support your students in achieving their full intellectual potential. This session will include
External Event: Introduction to the Pathways to Equity Learning Series-Understanding the Guided Pathways Key Performance Indicators
Please join us and guest speaker Dr. Valerie Lundy-Wagner as she discusses how to use Disproportionate Impact (DI) data to make informed equity decisions on campus and build a better foundational understanding of how the system can be more bold and specific in meeting Vision for Success goals. This webinar is intended for California community
Reflection & Renewal Gathering-Autumn Reflections: Letting Go & Gathering In
Consider joining us to connect and reflect with colleagues for this fall "R & R" session. R & R events invite any and all staff to spend relaxed, yet focused time using tools such as journal writing, the arts, and individual and small group reflection to encourage introspection, collegiality, and a renewed sense of purpose
External Event: Re-Designing Organizations to Increase Equity and Student Success in Postsecondary Education
The idea of higher education as an engine of social mobility is widespread and attractive. Yet higher education is also an engine of social reproduction, reinforcing inequities and concentrating access to opportunity and wealth in the highest income families. There are systemic barriers in colleges and universities that prevent higher education from reaching its potential
Staff Recognition Nominations Due!
We will once again seek to recognize the tremendous work done by Rio Hondo employees each month with our two awards: "Rio Stars" - Honoring a specific incident of an individual employee going the “extra mile” to benefit a student(s), colleagues and/or the campus community that occurred within the last year. And "Better Together" -
Equity Event: Cafe con Libros
Book Selection: Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall Open to staff and faculty.
Classified Input Needed! Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Professional Development Survey
The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (CCCCO), in partnership with the California Community Colleges Classified Senate (4CS) and California School Employees Association (CSEA), is inviting all classified professionals to complete a needs assessment to gauge professional development needs related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). As the CCCCO develops a more inclusive professional development plan, we want input
