Cultural + Structural Equity

De Anza's Equity Vision

• Discuss De Anza’s current equity framework
• Provide ideas for what you think equity means and how you would define it for the college
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • Race-based equity
  • Six factors of student success – ensuring that students are directed, focused, nurtured, engaged, connected and valued

Integrating Equity Into Shared Governance

• Discuss how you think equity is currently integrated into shared governance
• Provide ideas for concrete practices you would want to see considered (such as rubrics for budget decisions, contractual policies, etc.) by shared governance leaders including senates, unions and the administration to help achieve equity
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • Equity ePortfolio
  • Professional development days

Cultivating a Culture of Equity

• Discuss your sense of the current culture of equity at De Anza
• Provide ideas for how you think we can cultivate a culture of equity more effectively
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • Public and monetary recognition of individual’s equity work
  • Professional learning cohorts for employees, based on equity
  • Increased communication of equity success stories through Villages and college website

Integrating Instruction and Support Services: High-Impact Practices

• Discuss high-impact practices, including effective integration of instruction and support services, that you feel have been successful in achieving equity at De Anza
• Provide ideas for other high-impact practices and ways to integrate instruction with support services more effectively that help achieve equity. Consider both your own work areas as well as the campus at large.
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • Infusion of equity-mindedness into the curriculum
  • Increasing nontraditional models of learning and credit earning
  • Proactive counseling, advising, and mentoring through Villages or through new programs such as a faculty mentoring program

Professional Development Opportunities and Structures

• Discuss current professional development opportunities that help achieve equity
• Provide ideas for more professional development opportunities you would like to see that will help achieve equity and that will help you feel more prepared to help achieve equity
• Respond to these particular examples of types of professional development content:
  • Introduction to the importance of racial equity
  • The need for ongoing institutional change
  • Six factors of student success factors – ensuring that students are directed, focused, nurtured, engaged, connected and valued
  • Equity competency
  • Shared governance and institutional practices
  • Equity in online pedagogy

Financial Commitment to Meeting Equity Goals

• Discuss ways that the college commits financial resources to help achieve equity
• Provide ideas for other ways you would like the college to invest financial resources to help achieve equity
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • Compensation for doing equity work
  • Alignment of budget decisions with equity priorities
  • Formalizing the representation of affinity groups in shared governance through budget allocations and reporting responsibilities
  • Transparency of decision-making processes

Creating a Student-Ready and Proactive Institution

• Discuss ways that the college has been proactive and student-ready as an institution
• Provide ideas for ways the college can be more student-ready and proactive to meet students where they are
• Respond to these particular examples:  
  • Villages
  • Zoom spaces

Multiple Access Points, Varying Educational Goals

• Discuss the multiple access points from which students come to our institution and the varying educational goals that they have
• Provide ideas for ways the college can better support students from multiple access points and with varying educational goal
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • CTE programs
  • Learning cohorts
  • Increased recruitment from adult education centers
  • Justice-involved programs (formerly incarcerated students)
  • Foster youth programs

Listening To – and Hearing – Students' Stories

• Discuss ways in which the college listens to and hears students’ stories
• Provide ideas for other ways the college can engage in listening to and hearing students’ stories
• Respond to these particular examples
  • Qualitative student focus groups
  • Student participation in governance
  • Hiring students to provide feedback on how to engage students in ongoing improvements

Fostering Engagement, Mutual Respect and Meaningful Interaction

• Discuss ways the college provides a culture of engagement, mutual respect and meaningful interaction – not just with students but between employees
• Provide ideas for ways in which the college can better provide such a culture
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • Guided Pathways' progress toward improving mutual respect
  • Guided Pathways' cultivation of engagement and camaraderie

Eliminating Unnecessary Bureaucratic Barriers Within Local Control

• Discuss examples of bureaucratic barriers you have seen eliminated over the past five years that make it easier for students to achieve their goals.
• Discuss bureaucratic barriers you would like to see removed to help students achieve their goals
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • Automatic awrding of degrees and certificates
  • Program and transfer mapping

Community Partnerships and Engagement 

• Discuss ways that the college has partnered with our local community
• Discuss ideas for more effectively partnering with  local communities to help students achieve their goals
• Respond to these particular examples:
  • Relationships with local businesses
  • Partnering with K-12 institutions,
  • Partnering with four-year colleges
  • Partnering with adult education centers
  • De Anza's Office of Outreach
  • VIDA (Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action)