Incorporate Diversity/Inclusion In and Out of the Classroom
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Feedback from 4/7/2016 & 4/21/2016 Forums (n=30)
Orange Coast College Proposed Initiatives 2016‐2021 Forum
Incorporate Diversity/Inclusion In and Out of the Classroom
Ideas:
Survey –
o Perceptions/ experiences of diverse groups
Campus climate survey of race/gender and experience on campus from different perspectives
Challenges:
Leadership structures – homogenous identify
o How does this encourage diversity?
Office of Institutional EffectivenessFeedback from 4/7/2016 & 4/21/2016 Forums (n=30)
Orange Coast College Proposed Initiatives 2016‐2021 Forum
OCC: Outreach, Completion and Connection
Ideas:
Build on current practices/events (at‐risk student event, example) and create synergy
Synergy area – transfer fair, senior day
AB 288 dual enrollment areas of focus
Q: is this already happening?
A: Yes, but how can we improve and synthesize efforts outside of silos?
Highlight SEPs during transfer fait (which ones map to which school?)
Boosting dual enrollment at high schools
Office of Institutional EffectivenessFeedback from 4/7/2016 & 4/21/2016 Forums (n=30)
Orange Coast College Proposed Initiatives 2016‐2021 Forum
Improve Information and Intervention of Strategies
Ideas:
MMAP
Grit type workshops/assessments – link to educational plans (also career assessments)
More information on syllabus (opportunities for students – food pantry, career placement, etc.)
Challenges:
Resources linked by what those needs
o App gained to information needed focused by group
o Scavenger hunt
Office of Institutional EffectivenessFeedback from 4/7/2016 & 4/21/2016 Forums (n=30)
Orange Coast College Proposed Initiatives 2016‐2021 Forum
Access to Success
Ideas:
Evaluate open entry/open exit options and competency based courses/subjects
Better Prep of high school students in junior/senior year – starting earlier!
Predictive/data driven scheduling based on placement/prerequisite
Need to learn more about open entry/open exit classes and how hard they would be to manage
from a curriculum/scheduling view
Think about pre‐placement testing or information about the importance of testing (bootcamp?)
Make link between this initiative and outreach initiative
Improve information
o Career placement surveys to students (broader than in counseling classes)
Office of Institutional EffectivenessFeedback from 4/7/2016 & 4/21/2016 Forums (n=30)
Orange Coast College Proposed Initiatives 2016‐2021 Forum
OCC Community Spheres: A Culture of Meaningful Engagement
Ideas:
College hour
Look at structural inequity among groups = participation (connected at local = universal)
Increase student work on campus opportunity
Information kiosk
Campus music/band entertainment on campus
Photography and comedy events from community members
I like the idea of school providing more jobs or help students get jobs. Personally, its difficult for
me to get a job because I can only work 1‐2 days a week because of school. And employers don’t
want to hire someone working for only 1 day
Research on plans
Give food to students on campus
Homeless students and their needs
Potential structure/disenfranchise
o Time and space for all constituent groups to participate (Grassroots to participate)
Employment opportunities/campus connections
o E.g. information boards/kiosk
With job information/apartment information, etc
Challenges:
Sandwich learner
o Needs of special populations (homeless, single parents, etc)
o Research plans
Low income parents
Office of Institutional EffectivenessDistrict Policy/Issue Review
OCC Initiatives 2016-2021 -- Spring 2016 ()
No. of responses = 22
Legend Relative Frequencies of answers Mean Median
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2. Constituent Group
2.1)
Please indicate your PRIMARY employee status:
n=21
Administrator/Manager 14.3%
Classified Staff/Confidential Staff 19%
Full-time Faculty 28.6%
Hourly Staff 0%
Part-time Faculty 38.1%
Student 0%
3. After reviewing the policy/issue below, provide the following feedback:
3.1)
Outcome of Review:
n=19
Reviewed and no revision recommended (add Comments below, if applicable) 57.9%
Reviewed and some revisions recommended (answer questions 3.2 through 3.8, where 42.1%
applicable)
3.2)
Reviewed and DELETIONS recommended.
n=10
Yes 40%
No 60%
3.3)
Please list suggested deletions.
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There also needs to be space on campus for interaction---> redundant
In "Access to Success" I'm not sure what is meant by... "and getting rid of the CTE/vocational education stigma". Most of this initiative is
with remediation - I'm not sure why we need this statement.
In "Access to Success" and anywhere else the term may show up, DELETE the word "accelerated" wherever it appears before
"remediation." This term implies that speeding students who are in great need of remediation will work better for them, when perhaps
providing different, more intensive, or additional help would be the best solution. Research should be done in all directions to see what
methods and pathways are most successful in bringing remedial students to a college level.
The plan involves bringing in people through formalized new and enhanced existing inter-disciplinary activities and events and forming a
communication plan with improved centralization.
COMMENT: what people? what activities? Too general. Please define or delete.
Wow - OCC: Outreach, Completion and Connection is right on the mark. I recommend adding more grass roots efforts through the
05/03/2016 Class Climate evaluation Page 1foundation and the community members and the Community Education being a part of this piece.
forming a communication plan with improved centralization - not needed
what does this mean? "There also needs to be space on campus for interaction." If you want more classrooms or a larger student center -
just say this
3.4)
Reviewed and OTHER CHANGES recommended.
n=12
Yes 50%
No 50%
3.5)
Please list suggested changes.
Change second paragraph, first sentence to "in and outside" rather than "within and without" if the purpose of the question is to ask about
on and off campus.
If people are giving lectures students and presenters will interact at the event.
Who wrote this? 'through instruction and service learning/volunteerism' - if you want to create an internship program that has students
earning academic credit in exchange for work product in the 'real world' - just say so
Student access to courses improved.
The initiative proposes to develop and create an environment to address the needs of diverse student populations and engage with the
community through instruction and service learning/volunteerism.
COMMENT: Don't we already have an environment on campus? Are we not addressing the needs already? How about we focus on
diverse environments and improve upon existing environments to address the needs???
COMMENT 2: Engage the community....seems we do not offer enough life-long learner classes...or many have disappeared and replaced
with just core transfer classes. We have lost community engagement.
The plan involves bringing in people ---> speakers representing both the College and surrounding community, as well as others, through....
If the plan is successful, there will be higher retention of students and employees--> Expected outcomes include higher retention of
students and employees, .......
There appears to be some conflict in the discussion of CTE. In the "Access to Success" section, the phrase "getting rid of the CTE/
Vocational education stigma" is used. Then in section "OCC: Outreach . . . ," the statement "the information on CTE and vocational
education pathways." It appears that we are saying something negative about CTE, but we are going to provide CTE anyway. So perhaps
we need to define what the stigma is regarding CTE.
3.6)
Reviewed and ADDITIONS recommended.
n=9
Yes 55.6%
No 44.4%
3.7)
Please list suggested additions.
1. Workshop for faculty in regards to our Special Services students
2. Revision of part-time faculty in coordination with the Union to expand the limited teaching of classes
For both Access to Success and Improve Information and Intervention of Strategies, adding wording of some kind to bring class
repeatability back to Community Colleges. This would facilitate both initiatives.
If your idea of introducing diversity is code for enrolling more international students - you are on the wrong track. You are chasing the
money not providing a good education for California students nor are you helping the international students who are being enrolled in
courses that they are not equipped to take. All you are doing is taking their money and dooming them to failure! You then are taking seats
away from California students and you are not fulfilling the mission of CA community colleges.
Why not have all clubs on campus complete mandatory community service? This promotes positive engagement...right now clubs seem to
not engage enough in the diverse community of Costa Mesa. All campus Clubs could interact with K-12 locally.
“How do we incorporate diversity within and without campus and community?” ---> within and outside the campus and community
3.8)
Comments:
I recommend that the team consider adding information about professional development. There needs to be standardization in this area.
There is a lot of monies being thrown at some key initiatives - equity and SSSP. What happens when the money runs out? There needs to
be a more systematic and collaborative approach to PD on the campus. Where is this on the proposed initiative? How is PD being
05/03/2016 Class Climate evaluation Page 2measured? How is the college supporting the PD efforts? Again, consider adding information about formalized methods for the employees to learn. Comments are listed above. There is more than the faculty who work on the campus. While Faculty and Students are vital, the other members of the college should be professionally supported to keep the college business going. People are losing faith in formalized education and what it does for society. Through the outreach and connection, there is a real opportunity to get the local community to see the benefit and support community college and remove the stigma. I'm interested in how projects will be tracked and if funding can accompany them. Will we be proactive in developing new things as well as highlight existing things that accomplish these initiatives If the plan is successful, there will be higher retention of students and employees, formal and informal ways to engage with each other, service learning, well-being/mental health improvement, and better attendance at campus events. This plan will not do this If you want to achieve these goals - then you need to change the climate of the college not create PC speak "A culture of Meaningful Engagement" - you are ignoring why retention of students is not what you want - most of the students have so many family and financial pressures they should not be enrolled in 5 courses in the first place. Even if they could finish in 2 years, which they can't due to their need of remedial English or Math - so many don't have the financial means to transfer to a 4 year school. If you want to help students - counselors should be having 'boot camps' for getting grants and other kinds of financial aid that doesn't put them into terrible debt. All entering students should be enrolled in some kind of program to learn about how to find money as of the first day of college. If they really understand that there is money for students with good grades they will focus on their grades and not over enroll. We should not be pushing in and out in 2 years - instead slow and steady wins the race - for most students 3 courses is all they can handle with their complicated lives. This document is filled with politically correct speech that either hides your real agenda or is missing the point If students don't think that college doesn't care about them - there must be a reason - what kind of guidance are they being given? Does the administration really understand the financial demographics of its student population? Does anyone have a clue about the family lives of our students? Because I ask questions I learned that I have a student who has to care for 7 younger brothers, 3 of which are autistic and she is going to school. This student needs to be asked - 'how can we help you to be successful' not - you need to get in and out in 2 years In the Access to Success section, I suggest that there is mention of guest speakers promoting CTE programs and more conferences held at OCC. Additionally, mention of the Common Assessment and better placement methods can be made. Also, Educational Plans should include advisement where students take Basic Skills courses in their first semester to be able to get to college-level courses in a more timely manner. In the Outreach section, a good strategy would be to have parent meet and greets at local high schools, especially for Latino parents, who may not have an idea of what OCC offers. Thank you! ~maria lerma Part-time faculty own the knowledge and talent to extend their teaching assignments. We are under-utilized. Dedicated to the mission of OCC, it is unfathomable to understand why we are restricted and under-valued Removing class repeatability from Community Colleges was short-sighted an hurt the very students we should be striving to help. We should demand the reinstitution of this helpful policy at the earliest possile opportunity. Thanks for the opportunity to review. The OCC Honors Program and the campus's 16 honor societies would be willing and valuable partners in developing and facilitating community spheres; it should not be left out while we are examining and meeting the needs of our students -- honors students have certain unmet academic/co-curricular needs, too. In terms of removing the stigma from CTE/vocational education, showcasing projects and accomplishments by honor society students in those areas may provide some useful evidence that CTE/vocational ed. is embraced by many of the college's top students. With regard to outreach, especially to K-12 schools, no one better exemplifies the benefits of community college than our honors students who are winning highly competitive awards and scholarships, transferring to top-tier 4-year institutions, filling the role of commencement speaker, and engaging in projects and events that routinely spotlight student success. This looks very good! 05/03/2016 Class Climate evaluation Page 3
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Subunit: OCC Look Out
Name of the instructor: District Policy/Issue Review
Name of the course: OCC Initiatives 2016-2021 -- Spring 2016
(Name of the survey)
Values used in the profile line: Mean
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