Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Advancing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cuesta College
through Professional Development
The Faculty Professional Development Committee offers Flex activities, trainings, and resources in an effort to enact specific strategies, to build rapport and authentic relationships with students, and to engage students in course content.
Information regarding upcoming Flex activities, resources from past activities, and other equity trainings are compiled here for faculty and staff to reference.
Current Equity Events:
- DEI Celebration Month Calendar, March 30 - April 28, 2022
- Cuesta College Call to Action
- 21 Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge
Faculty Professional Development Committee
Flex Activities & Resources
- January Activities 2022
- August Activities 2021
- January Activities 2021
- August Activities 2020
- January Activities 2020
- October Activities 2019
- August Activities 2019
Additional Equity Resources and Information:
Cuesta College Focus Group Report
by Dr. Darla Cooper, RP Group
CORA Presentations at Cuesta College
- Cuesta Community Forum: Advancing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Strategies for Business and Education
- Supporting Men of Color: Cuesta Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Teaching & Learning at Cuesta College
- Guide for registering for CORA Learning Training Programs
- Information for CORA Learning Group (Center for Organizational Responsibility & Advancement)
Equity Resources and Articles
- How to Express Care with a Focus on Racial Equity-Center for Urban Education
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saaid
- White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh
- White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
- From Racial Resistance to Racial Consciousness: Engaging White STEM Faculty in Pedagogical Transformation, by Chayla Haynes & Lori D. Patton
- Advice to White Allies: Insights from Faculty of Color, by Gloria S. Boutte & Tambra O. Jackson
- Public Policy and Hispanic-Serving Institutions: From Invention to Accountability, by Deborah A. Santiago
- Converging Evidence That Stereotype Threat Reduces Working Memory Capacity, by Toni Schmader & Michael Johns
- Teachers' Explicit Expectations and Implicit Prejudiced Attitudes to Educational Achievement: Relations with Student Achievement and Ethnic Achievement Gap, by E.R. Peterson, C. Rubie-Davies, D. Osborne, and C. Sibley
- The Unexamined Whiteness of Teaching: How White Teachers Maintain and Enact Dominant Racial Ideologies, by Bree Picower