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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The mission of the SJCA Institute is to provide a practitioner’s and educator’s grounding in social justice and identity training that is paired with strategies, development and the establishment of a peer network, aimed at career advancement and growing equity-based institutional effectiveness across the system.
The program’s content is focused on the individual’s understanding and development of their own identity, and strategies for impacting anti-racist and socially just structures through constructive management practices that will be replicated throughout community colleges in California.
The Institute is the result of a collaboration between the California Community College Chancellor’s Office and ACCCA. The goal of this effort is to directly support the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility [DEIA] focus of the Vision 2030, by assisting in the development of administrators who foster more equitable and diverse institutional practices at their campuses within the California community college system.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
The Institute is designed for Community College Administrative and Management Professionals. The program is targeted to historically excluded constituencies [meaning marginalized groups inclusive of race/ethnicity, indigenous status, ability/disability, gender and sexual orientation] and the ally community that supports them.
It will be open to those within that spectrum who are seeking a deeper understanding of, and expanded engagement in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility environments, including those requiring a better understanding of the scope of integrating established social justice standards into institutional structures.
Special consideration will be given to those who currently work directly with students, and also for those working in positions having a potential to impact campus culture, or who occupy other spheres of influence with the campus community or at the state level.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Participants will explore and gain confidence in mastering dialogue skills in sensitive conversations around identity, bias, power, privilege, and their intersections.
- Participants will explore trauma-informed care principles that center healing, wellness, and self-care around marginalized identities.
- Participants will gain skills in recruiting, supporting, retaining, and developing historically excluded [meaning marginalized groups based on race/ethnicity, indigenous status, ability/disability, gender and sexual orientation] job candidates for success in their careers.
- Participants will develop the ability to successfully navigate their next steps professionally while nurturing practices that will scale across their institutions. This skill development can be applied to achieve higher levels of responsibility and professional success in their careers within the California community colleges.
- Participants will gain increased levels of confidence and a sense of belongingness, inclusion, and support across communities and in their career pathway as they help to create transformational change system-wide. Their confidence will further ensure they share their experiences and knowledge with others and elevate others to develop self-awareness of dominant and marginalized identities and how they intersect to create unique leadership styles and opportunities.
