[DEOC] TOMORROW: SBCTC & C4C Meeting Re: Racial Equity Recommendations | June 20th @ 10AM

Tue Jun 20 08:59:43 PDT 2023

Thank you for sending this, Sophia. I too would love to attend as it sounds like a great opportunity to connect and work together on this important work for our commission. Unfortunately, I too am in cabinet meetings all morning/afternoon and am onboarding a new employee today. I hope it all goes well and I look forward to connecting soon.

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Amanda

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Colleagues--

Happy Juneteenth!

Just in case your plans change and you're able to attend, there's still room for you at tomorrow's planning/collaboration with Communities for our Colleges. See agenda and info below.

Lunch will be provided and mileage reimbursed.

Sophia

Sophia Kristina R. Agtarap (she/siya)

Director, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

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Subject: TOMORROW: SBCTC & C4C Meeting Re: Racial Equity Recommendations | June 20th @ 10AM

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Hi all -

Happy Juneteenth! I hope everyone is doing well. This is another friendly reminder about our meeting tomorrow Tuesday, June 20th at 10am (see details below). The purpose of this meeting is to come together to come up with a set of racial equity recommendations for SBCTC.

Thank you to the SBCTC team for providing food and thank you to the Alliance for a Just Society for letting us use their space. The building is located close to the Columbia City downtown area in Seattle; for those of you driving there's free parking space in our building and free 2 hr parking on the street. We are also located about 2 blocks away from the light rail and there are several bus stops too.

I'm sharing a couple articles ahead of our meeting that describe the recent attacks to DEI funding and how DEI work is an act of resistance; but also the very importance of building solidarity:

  *   Why Politicized Attacks On DEI In Schools Are Occurring, And How They’re Bad For America<https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunharper/2023/06/09/why-politicized-attacks-on-dei-in-schools-are-occurring-and-how-theyre-bad-for-america/?sh=10acb09114c7>: Many states have placed restrictions on the expenditure of public funds on DEI-focused professional development experiences for employees of K-12 schools and higher education institutions. Presidential candidate and Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has banned public spending on DEI initiatives<https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/05/15/desantis-signs-bill-banning-public-colleges-from-funding-diversity-programs/?sh=780933811d80> at colleges and universities in his state. Last month, both chambers of the Texas legislature passed a bill<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/us/texas-dei-program-ban.html> that bans DEI offices and programs at public colleges and universities. All these DEI suppression activities are going to have devastating effects on our democracy and American businesses.
  *   DEI as an ‘Act of Resistance’<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/race-ethnicity/2023/06/13/dei-officers-gear-battle-red-states?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=a6f5a2918f-DiversityMatters_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-a6f5a2918f-237850597&mc_cid=a6f5a2918f&mc_eid=f53b538f3d#>: What that resistance looks like—and how difficult it will be to maintain if the march of anti-DEI legislation<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity-equity/2023/05/25/texas-tenure-anti-dei-bills-near-passage-or-death> continues—remains murky. What’s more certain, Sansone said, is the feeling of urgency and even dissidence that has come to define DEI work in the face of the growing movement to quash it. “The [anti-DEI] state policies all happen so fast. And that’s kind of intentional, I think; it builds momentum,” she said. “There is momentum in regard to solidarity, too, across states and across racialized groups. And my hope is that momentum just keeps building.”

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at fernando at juststrategy.org<mailto:fernando at juststrategy.org> or text me at 206-556-1934 or contact Sophia Agtarap directly at sagtarap at sbctc.edu<mailto:sagtarap at sbctc.edu>. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!

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Date: Tuesday, June 20th

Time: 10am to 3pm

Location: Southside Commons | 3518 S. Edmunds St., Seattle, 98118

Purpose: Equity Officers will be meeting with Communities for Our Colleges to come up with a set of racial equity recommendations for SBCTC.

Outcomes:

  *   Build a solid working relationships and team

  *   Identify our shared vision and values that support building College Equity plans

  *   Share barriers to achieving our vision

  *   Identify best practices report

     *   Equity officers

     *   C4C

     *   Others

  *   Identify helpful elements of a  toolkit for SBCTC and the 34 CTCs in WA.

  *   Discuss process for building the toolkit

  *   Identify future discussions: how we build best practices across all CTC’s

Process:

WHAT

DETAILS

TIME

Welcome

What brought us here

10AM -

10 min

Building shared vision

In pairs draw a picture of your ideal process for building strong equity plans

Identify 3-5 values/words - that guide the process

Report out - share pictures and values

20 min

Barriers to achieving our vision

Fishbowl: Equity officers share their experiences of barriers, students share theirs

Scribe - lists barriers on butcher paper

20 min

Solutions

In pairs discuss and suggest solutions  - put on large sticky notepads

In large group - regroup them into solution categories

Discussion - what are other best practices we would like to see included not mentioned

11

1 hr

Lunch

30 min

Creating Toolkit

What elements should the toolkit have

What is a good process for feedback on the toolkit

12:30

30 min

Defining Goals & Outcomes (see below)

Operationalizing this work

Need to come up with a set of goals, outcomes, and intended timeline.

What systems do we need to have in place to implement this work?

  *   Meetings

  *   How to assess our progress

1:00

45 min

Evaluation & Next steps

1:45

30 min

2:30 end

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Just Strategy / Alliance for a Just Society

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