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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear WSSSC,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As your liaison to the Data Governance Committee, I ask for your help in providing feedback to DemoCom on the attached proposal to ensure the proposed framework reflects our system values and
elevates the voices of our students and employees who may have been negatively impacted by our historic ways of collecting this information.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you are a liaison to a council, please share this proposal with them as well. I’ll be forwarding to ARC shortly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The conversion of Legacy systems (i.e. PPMS, FMS, and SMS) to PeopleSoft (i.e. ctcLink), resulted in changes to how racial, ethnic, and ancestral data is handled within the CTCs’ information
systems. These changes resulted in the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges’ Data Governance Committee’s Subcommittee on Demographic Data (“DemoCom”) regularly receiving requests for the inclusion of additional detailed racial, ethnic, and ancestral
options within ctcLink.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The attached proposal seeks to a establish a sustainable framework for making decisions, now and in the future, regarding the inclusion of specific sub-racial, sub-ethnic, and ancestral categories
for the purpose of identifying opportunity, achievement, access, or other similar gaps between and within groups. Adopting a framework helps to ensure that decisions are consistent, rooted in research, and representative of our communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Feedback can be submitted anonymously or with your name attached, if you prefer, via this online form:
<a href="https://lwtech.formstack.com/forms/demo_com_feedback">https://lwtech.formstack.com/forms/demo_com_feedback</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please submit feedback no later than April 22, 2022. You are welcome to share this message to help solicit feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ruby.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ruby Hayden, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Vice President of Student Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">My pronouns: she/her</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lake Washington Institute of Technology<br>
Student Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">West 213C<br>
11605 - 132nd Avenue NE | Kirkland, WA 98034<br>
T: (425) 739-8208 | </span><a href="mailto:ruby.hayden@lwtech.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">ruby.hayden@lwtech.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><a href="http://www.lwtech.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">www.LWTech.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> |
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</span><a href="twitter.com/TheLWTech">twitter.com/TheLWTech</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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