What is your college doing to promote diversity? What is the college in the next county doing?

1. What is your college doing to promote diversity? What is the college in the next county doing? What are the best diversity practices? 1

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3. Diversity and California Community Colleges 72% 18% 47% 8% 24% Source: California Postsecondary Education Commission: First time freshmen from high schools, 2000 21% 65% 23% 8% UC CSU CC 3

4. Diversity and California: 50.3 48.2 Source: Population Projections for States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995-2025 45.9 2002 2005 2010 Hispanic 5-year-olds as a percent of all 5-year-olds 4

5. How do we respond? 5

6. The Diversity Practices Manual • 30 case studies • Innovative • Replicable 6

7. The Diversity Practices Manual How it works: Description 7

8. The Diversity Practices Manual How it works: Evidence of Impact/Success 8

9. The Diversity Practices Manual How it works: Implementation 9

10. The Diversity Practices Manual How it works: Funding 10

11. The Diversity Practices Manual How it works: Advice 11

12. The Diversity Practices Manual How it works: Contact Person(s) 12

13. Methodology • Data Collection • Survey • Peer recommendations • Data analysis • Expert recommendations 2. Data Analysis • Identifying promising practices 3. In-Depth Phone Interviews • Interviews with project representatives • Interviews with stakeholders 13

14. Best Practices • Case studies are examples of best practices • Many other projects could be added to the collection 14

15. Identifies best practices in: Recruitment and hiring Internal climate External relations 15

16. Finding projects of interest to you Search by: • Type of Project • Cost • Type of cost • Region • Size • Population 16

17. “We don’t have a lotof money. Can we still do a project? 17

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20. Tips for Practitioners Review case studies in your area of interest Make comparisons Involve colleagues in the review Call or visit the contact persons 20

21. Tips for Decision-Makers Ask key people to review the case studies Host sessions to discuss the findings Assign people to gather more information Include the study in a FLEX Day activity Engage the community Host a PowerPoint presentation 21

22. The Big Picture • What does the big picture look like? • What kinds of patterns did CCSF detect? • Five themes ran across the case studies 22

23. Themes • Expansion of traditional recruitment methods • Internships • National advertising • Community workshops • Examples: • Internship & placement program @ Southern California community colleges • Internship program @ Los Rios Community College District 23

24. Themes 2. Increase in college-community partnerships • Community surveys, meetings and listening sessions • Satellite locations • Programs targeting different neighborhoods and groups • Examples: • Listening sessions @ City College of San Francisco • City government partnership @ East Los Angeles 24

25. Themes 3. Creation of diversity advocates • bringing faculty, administrators, and staff together around specific project activities • Examples: • Faculty recruitment @ Pasadena City College • Museum of Tolerance staff training @ Yosemite Community College District 25

26. Themes 4. Funding issues • Most important sources of funding: • Partnership for Excellence • Chancellor’s Office grants 26

27. Themes 5. Weak evaluations • Lack of hard data • Limited documentation of outcomes • Example: • Data collection on underrepresented minorities @ Southern CA internship program 27

28. Future Plans • Conference presentations • Promoting Diversity manual • Interactive website 28

29. Name Address Phone Number Email Address For more information or to request a copy of this PowerPoint presentation, please contact: 29