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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Clackamas Community College strives to address, explore, educate, learn about and respond to the diversity of the human experience.
We prepare our students to successfully understand people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds by teaching critical thinking, empathy and a deeper appreciation of others.
We create an inclusive, equitable, culturally competent and supportive environment where students and employees model behavior that enriches our community.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In October 2017, Clackamas Community College (CCC) embarked on a formal journey to create a welcoming environment for students, employees and community members with the establishment of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is a college-wide committee with diverse representation from across the institution.
The purpose of the DEI committee is to guide and hold the institution accountable in the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all aspects of the work at Clackamas Community College.
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee was formally charged to lead this effort. The College hired consultants to support this work in winter quarter 2019. The College community, under the leadership of the DEI Strategic Planning team, executive leadership of Dr. Tim Cook, President, and the College's Leadership Cabinet, participated in a year-and-a-half long process to generate the DEI Strategic Plan.
The plan offers insight into the current strengths and areas for improvement for the College as related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The Strategic Priorities and accompanying goals and objectives have been identified through an inclusive and rigorous process of data collection from students and employees through, visioning, asset-mapping, a climate survey, and focus group engagements as part of the planning process.
The plan has identified Student Success, Belonging, Empathy and Respect as guiding values related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Three Strategic Priorities with accompanying goals and objectives were developed to focus on the following areas:
- Build the foundation needed to create and sustain a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture at CCC.
- Identify and eliminate equity gaps for students.
- Align instructional culture with principles and practices of equitable and inclusive teaching and learning.
The recommendations outlined in the DEI Strategic Plan are expected to be fully implemented over a three-year period, ending in 2023.
The DEI Strategic Plan identifies the need for development of a DEI Framework to help guide decision making at the college. In an effort to bring a framework to the college for use during the 2020-2021 school year, while spending time to develop a framework, the DEI Committee has adopted an interim equitable decision-making framework.
The interim framework was adapted from Clark College's Equitable Decision-Making Tool from the B.U.I.L.D. Training Program. Adoption of the interim framework allows the college to begin applying an equitable decision-making framework and become familiar with a structure for equitable decision-making.
The DEI Committee is actively engaged in offering training on the interim framework to help college community members become familiar with the framework and its application. If you are seeking training on the framework, please complete the training request form. The DEI Committee is also seeking feedback on the interim framework. Feedback on the interim framework will be used to develop a framework moving forward in 2021-2022. The committee is asking that individuals who use the interim framework complete the feedback form.
We acknowledge that the Clackamas Community College campuses reside on the traditional homelands of the Clackamas, Cascades, and Tumwater bands of Chinooks, as well as the Tualatin and Pudding River bands of Kalapuya and the Northern Molalla people. They lived and prospered by maintaining strong cultural ties to the land, and through wise management of resources. As signers of the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, they were removed from their homelands to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation where they became members of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Please join us in taking this opportunity to thank and honor the original caretakers of this land, their lives, and their descendants that live on as Tribal members today, still carrying on the traditions and cultures of their ancestors.
