Foundations of Equity and Anti-Racism for Change Agency and Institutional Transformation

This program, developed and delivered by Shani Barrax Moore, CCDP/AP, supports North Texas Community College Consortium member colleges and their efforts to create an anti-racism learning and development series.

Program Overview

Culture change that considers the perspectives, experiences, and interactions of a complex system takes time. While institutional personnel may be subject matter experts in their respective areas, creating strategic and operational support for equity-minded student success in an area fraught with challenges, frustrations, limited perspectives and fear decreases the probability of successful outcomes. This program offers a starting point for institutions to develop subject matter expertise applicable to the various conduits for change across their institutions, and develop their own organizational culture.

This program includes curriculum, materials, action planning, and resources for continued development. Prework will be required for most of the sessions. All sessions are Wednesday afternoons, four hours per session, from 1 – 5 pm. Sessions will be delivered via Zoom. The Foundations for Equity series' five sessions serve to build capacity through dialogue, self-reflection, and introduction to core concepts required to engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion work.

Foundations of Equity and Anti-Racism for Change Agency and Institutional Transformation provides learning and development sessions for institutions to begin actualizing strategic outcomes. These customized and comprehensive modules will engage core team members in an exploration of their own racial and cultural-based perspectives and experiences around critical concepts such as:

• Bias awareness and its implications for providing an inclusive teaching and learning environment.

• Institutional personnel functioning as agents of socialization for theirstudents. Action planning will consider the impact of active and passive exclusion on student development, success, and matriculation.

• The role of communication, interactions, and culturally responsive curriculum in facilitating positive student identity development.

• Systemic issues of privilege, disparities, and disproportionality for application to existing and needed policies, programs, practices, and people.

• Capacity-building towards the creation and deployment of an institutional climate assessment for diversity, equity, inclusion, and multiculturalism.

*NOTE: The Foundations program is recommended for all employees. Participants register for the Foundations program (Modules 1-5) as a group, and must complete all modules in order.

Module Descriptions

Module 1: Foundational Principles

Wednesday, October 21

Participants will be introduced to cultural humility vs. cultural competence, discuss core concepts and agreed upon common language. Participants will consider their desired outcomes for engaging in this process.

Module 2: Bias Awareness, Socialization, and Identity Formation

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Participants will explore their own biases and socialization, consider their own identity development, and begin to conceptualize the impact of these concepts on an inclusive learning environment. Assimilation, acculturation, and cultural appropriation will also be introduced.

Module 3: Microaggressions and Inclusive Communication

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Inclusive communication and the impact of microaggressions on student and employee engagement will be addressed.

Module 4: Systemic Privilege Disparities, and Moving Towards Accompliceship

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Participants will explore their own relative privilege and individual and institutional capacity for advocacy and accompliceship to address disproportionality and disparities as a barrier to racial equity.

Module 5: Change Leadership, Action Planning, and Charting a Course

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

This session will apply concepts and awareness learned throughout the modules to action planning through policies, programs, practices, and people. Participants will explore the process of change leadership to actualize their desired objectives.

REGISTER FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF EQUITY SERIES

$200 NTCCC Members; $300 Non-Members; $0 Current CLARA Class