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Equity Driven Systems: Student Equity and Achievement in the California Community Colleges
“Student equity is essential for the success of students, colleges, and communities. California communitycolleges are obligated to establish local goal setting processes and develop student equity and achievement plans through deliberate and collegial mechanisms that ensure access to culturally responsive programs and services. Colleges must also recognize that a local commitment to student equity that
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Anti-Racism in California Community Colleges
“Dismantling racist structures requires a review of the history that created those structures. It requiresunderstanding the history of the construct of race as a culture, the white supremacy ideology, thecenturies of laws intended to maintain positions of power for whites, and the ways in which the equityand diversity efforts within California’s community colleges have fallen
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Anti-Racism: A Student Plan of Action
“The Student Senate for California Community Colleges (SSCCC) represents students from the most diverse student population in the nation, California community colleges. After the unjust murder of George Floyd in May 2020, the SSCCC began to work actively within the higher education system to initiate change because we had seen too much of others talking
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Liquid Syllabus
What is a liquid syllabus and why is it referred to as a humanizing element of online learning? Liquid Syllabus “A Liquid Syllabus is a humanizing element that ensures students start a course feeling supported by their instructor. It intentionally provides students with what they need to succeed in week one of a course, including
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Resubmission
Grading practices is an aspect of a course’s framework that can have adverse impact on student social-emotional engagement. There is no doubt that, as Joel Feldman explains, “mistakes are necessary for any learning to happen, and yet traditional grading treats mistakes as unwanted, unhelpful, and deserving of penalty.” Feldman notes that many believe that “using
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Threshold Concepts
Academic cultures and disciplines have very particular ways of thinking and constructing knowledge. This particular way of thinking and doing can be challenging to someone unfamiliar with a particular academic discipline. Student difficulty in learning might be tied to how instructors and students see the discipline. Consequently, decoding one’s discipline at the beginning of the
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Transfer of Learning
One of the most important principles of learning that all faculty should be aware of when creating instructional objectives and content that supports that objective is transfer of learning. Transfer of Learning “Transfer of learning means the use of previously acquired knowledge and skills in new learning or problem-solving situations. Thereby similarities and analogies between previous
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