City Social Justice and Equity Commitment Process
Resource page for sharing work and research
Commitment to Social Justice
Presentations and links to discussion products from the development of the commitment statement and additional context.
This process was coordinated through the recently aligned (yet to be named) City Diversity/Equity Collaborative that encompasses the Student Success and Equity Taskforce and Diversity Committee, and activities from World Cultures, Sankofa, Social Justice, and VAMP .
Social Justice Commitment
Text of Social Justice Commitment:
At San Diego City College, we commit to closing the opportunity gaps perpetuated by structural injustice in higher education. Closing the opportunity gap means dismantling the inequitable distribution of resources, opportunities, and policies to achieve parity in educational outcomes for historically marginalized student populations.
We commit to providing an inclusive and welcoming educational environment by recognizing and supporting the intersection of our community members' multiple identities and roles through culturally-responsive pedagogy and equity-minded practices, behaviors and policies.
We commit to sustain a teaching, learning, and work culture that envisions and actively validates and uplifts our diverse community’s lived experiences to ensure a strength-based structural and cultural change at our institution.
Student Virtual Forum 4/19/22
Padlets with student input:
Student feedback on Who We Are section
Initial Charge
Define a process for broad college input into the creation of an equity statement for City College.
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Below are links to references and work products from the initial planning process that addressed how the college would go about creating this institutional commitment.
May 2021 Equity Summit
Below are links to the work products from the May Summit event.
What is Equity at City?
Open Padlet to add to the responses from the summit
Breakout Groups - Equity Discussion
Open Padlet to add to the responses from the summit
Resources: Research
Information gathered by the workgroup during spring 2021
Examples of Equity Statements (Google Drive folder link)
Articles and other research literature (Google Drive folder link)
Ohlone College presentation - Harris & Wood
Center for Urban Education: Equity and Equity-Mindedness
Core Principles - Understanding the Work of Equity in Higher Education
Resources: Examples of Equity Statements/Commitments
Flex Workshop 8/20/21
Comments from small group discussion of sample equity statements:
Closing activity: what words are important to include in the title of our equity document?
Questions?
Contact Adan Sanchez, Bree Kennedy, Norell Martinez, Deanna Shelton, or Maria-Jose Zeledon-Perez to get more information.