Colegas Institute & Talleres

Participants will be able to:

• Build an understanding of Chicana feminist and Critical Race epistemologies as scholarly traditions that validate experiential knowledge in the creation of more just educational experiences for Students of Color.
• Identify what data currently exist about Latina/o/x/e student experiences at their college; creating tools such as a success study rooted in pláticas that more intentionally center our students’ voices.
• Draft an agenda for a two-day professional learning experience that engages all constituency groups in both learning more about what our students experience as well as committing to action that will better serve and ultimately empower them.

Recommended Audience: Chief Student Services Officers, Student Services Department Leaders, Guided Pathways Teams, Student Success Leaders, Research Officers, HSI Grant & Activity Leaders, Learning Community Leaders

Practitioners will be able to:

• Define equity-mindedness and culturally relevant pedagogy as it relates to course syllabus.
• Apply lenses to a key pedagogical tool: the classroom syllabus.
• Curriculum development and policy interpretation to best serve Latina/o/x student success.

Recommended Audience: Chief Instructional Officers, Division Deans, Department Chairs, Faculty Leaders, Adjunct Faculty, Academic Senate Presidents, Professional Development Leaders, First Year Experience Leaders, Learning Community Leaders

Practitioners will be able to:

• Develop/refine asset-based lenses in liberation pedagogy, and other models of validation and affirmation, in an effort to address Latina/o/x student success.
• Learn how to help students develop critical consciousness and use their voices for change in society, on campus, and beyond through intentional curriculum and student advisory groups.

Recommended Audience: Chief Instructional Officers, Division Deans, Department Chairs, Faculty Leaders, Adjunct Faculty, Academic Senate Presidents, Professional Development Leaders, First Year Experience Leaders, Learning Community Leaders, HSI Grant & Activity Leaders, Student Development Leaders

Practitioners will be able to:

• Identify Key Issues in Faculty Diversity
• Identify Institutional Methods for Hiring More Faculty of Color
• Identify Steps you as a CC Practitioner can take to Help with Faculty Diversity

Recommended Audience: Hiring Committee Members, HR Leaders, Hiring Committee Chairs and Senate Presidents, Administrators, Faculty, Staff

Practitioners will learn:

• Counseling approaches that work for our most systematically marginalized community college students.
• Examples of how to infuse counseling approaches in the guided pathways redesign work.
• Culturally affirming mindsets and equitable practices central to supporting students through each stage of their college journey.

Recommended Audience: Chief Student Services Officers, Students Services Leaders, Deans of Counseling, EOP&S & Categorical Program Leaders, Guided Pathways Teams, Transfer Center Leaders, Counseling Faculty & Classified Staff