The following is a list of Professional Development Offerings for Faculty to use to improve their skills and abilities regarding equity in their teaching, counseling, and other services. Equity work is best viewed as an ongoing practice of continual improvement. While there cannot be a checklist or a minimum number of hours needed to be considered "equity trained," for the benefit of your students, please plan on spending a significant amount of time each semester learning and applying new equity skills. The following is a list of resources to help you as you strive to become more equity minded.
To serve on a faculty selection committee, faculty are required to participate in at least two hours of training from among this list (within the previous 12 months) according to AP 7120. You are responsible for keeping track of your equity trainings and reporting them to your division chair before you can serve on a faculty selection committee. These equity trainings are in addition to the EEO training that is required to serve on any selection committee for the District.
Is there an equity training opportunity that you would like us to add to this list? If so, please submit your proposed training or activity here:
Proposed trainings must satisfy the following requirements:
At regularly-scheduled Faculty Professional Development Committee meetings, the committee will vote whether or not to approve proposed training opportunities:
Office of Instruction:
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(805) 546-3122
Faculty Professional Development Email:professional_development@cuesta.edu
*Some options require fees or registration. Please reach out to the Faculty Professional Development Committee or Student Equity for funding support.
“Becoming a Trauma-Informed Campus in Higher Education”
Dr. Brenda Ingram, EdD, LCSW Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, USC Keck School of Medicine, Associate Director, USC Counseling and Mental Health, and Program Director, Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention and Services, USC Student Health Center
Dr. John Pascarella III conducted a 3-part professional learning series to prepare Cuesta College employees to be racial allies working in solidarity with people of color to more effectively advance racial Equity on Campus. In this series, John presented contemporary cases of racial problems, concrete examples of racial allyship, and practical strategies that faculty, staff, and administrators can use in their classrooms, workplaces and campus spaces. Each session included justice-oriented exercises that engage participants in opportunities to reflect critically on race and racism, analyze the sources of racial socialization, interrogate individual complicity and reproduction of racial bias, and practice actionable racial allyship strategies. This series is organized as three 2-hour professional learning sessions.
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California Community Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance
Cuesta College, along with over 60 other community colleges, is part of the CA Community College Equity Leadership Alliance working towards racial equity through monthly professional development eConvenings. These high-quality professional learning experiences were held virtually throughout the 20-21 academic year. Each focused on one specific topic – see an abbreviated list below in Table 1. Four-hour learning modules were delivered by experts who teach in the USC Equity Institutes. These instructors are well respected leaders of national higher education associations, highly-cited professors who study race relations and people of color, chief diversity officers and other experienced administrators, and specialists from the USC Race and Equity Center. eConvening modules focused mostly on strategies and practical approaches. Instructors used contemporary cases of equity dilemmas and racial crises on community college campuses. Emphasis was placed on learning from sagas that have recently occurred elsewhere; learning how to get ahead of situations and reducing risk of crisis; and learning actionable equity leadership strategies. Participants learned about evolving trends pertaining to diverse community college students and employees.
Alliance member colleges also participate in a trio of campus climate surveys on a three-year rotational basis – the student survey in year one, the faculty survey in year two, and the staff survey in the third membership year.
Table 1: List of eConvening Topics
Access to Alliance online trainings available for Cuesta employees only. CLICK HERE to access. Cuesta login required.
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Self-Paced On-line Trainings
Recorded Webinars
Books and Other Readings
July 4, 2024
July 10, 2024
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