Using Emergent Strategy to Drive Change CCA by Gina Ann Garcia

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Attending professional development to grow the HSI mindset and offering that development across the campus

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Outreach to community wasn't checking a box, but being intentional about efforts and being present.

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Talking college going culture to communities and not just about the institution.

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Working groups to create our eHSI plan with stakeholders from across the campus and roles

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New bilingual signage, cultural artwork in every main building, greetings on every building in a foreign language.

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Continuing to serve undoc students by rebranding to avoid unwanted attention.

Pursuing Seal of Excelencia

Trying to be more intentional about supporting high schools by reaching out to middle schools.

Pay stipends to bilingual staff and student staff.

Committee to pursue HSI.

Dream.US school which is a huge indicator of our commitment to our community (CCD)

PPSC- HSI designation, applying for funding. Work is to build out bilingual services, ESL services, partner with Centro de las Families and Latina Equity Foundation and learn who is doing what to avoid duplication of services.

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The HSI team is embedded in the strategic plan team and the work that is being done to move the SP along.

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Have a task force with 4 major focus areas, identifying how to get there

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HSI Committee, Professional development, culturally engaging campus training and connection

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We are revieiwing what is already happening across the campus and how we can elevate and promote this work

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Cultural and International events and celebrations. Tutoring and support services for first-gen students. Tours for students to adapt and be introduced to local industry and way of life.

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Goal as a System to serve the community across the state, keep track of the work that is being done, board is diverse with unique experiences and perspectives.

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HSI Taskforce

Professional development for the taskforce

Leadership support

Launched student club, Somos ACC

ALMA Alliance Latine Movement at ACC

Efforts to diversify faculty and staff

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Bringing together thought leaders from across campus, instead of doing it in a silo apporach or only being owned by one department

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We are already HSI last month of Title V grant. We have institutionalized two of our grant activities 1) Teaching & Learning-The Hub 2) Data informed practices.

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Incorporating student voices into all elements of the decesion making and planning

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Embedding the work into the Strategic Plan

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We have historically provided English classes to our Spanish speaking learners.

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Without clear direction from leadership, the Committee does not have a strategic action plan. Our advocates are running with our own initiatives but need leadership to integrate the true initiative.

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Aiming to shift the mindset that being an HSI benefits all members of the campus community.

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Build a Bilingual Campus Challenge to increase the number of bilingual employees on our campus. Adding a pillar to our new strategic plan that focuses on education for ALL. Campus support for our ESL, GED, and Adult Learning communities. A new workforce career center connecting students to job opportunities.

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Addressing the symptom right now and not the root of the problem, which still lands on the student.

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Empowering people to dream paired with reosurces to make those dreams or part of those dreams a reality

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International coffee table

Conversation tables

Spanish club

Japanese club

International student club

by faculty in the World Languages the Day of Dead celebration

World Cultural Day

International Week Celebration

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Providing bilingual support to students, families, and the community to create a space of trust and shared experience.

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Assessing data

Student outreach

Hiring more bilingual employees

Having an HSI fellow

F/S of color mentoring other F/S of color

HSI Advisory Committee

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One of our working groups is dedicated towards understanding the community engagement side of our HSI work and plan. How can we better partner and utilize our community stakeholders

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We have assessed our campus to identify areas for improvement to better serve our students. We have a Taskforce, understanding who our students were, identifying best practices to serve our students, & provided recommendations for the institution to move towards HSI servingness.

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Creating a leadership program for Latine students creating a sense of community, agency, and voice

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Inform leadership that initiatives like adopting interpretation and translation services can take up to 5 years to establish because it's about building trust with the families who could benefit from this support. This way, they invest long enough to see the results.

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Spanish supported CNA class, Adding MANUAL as a resource for male minority students. Revamping required course materials to be more accessible to underrepresented populations.

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We have great student resources that are commited to student success, such as our multicultural student space

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Belongingness was added to the new 5-year strategic plan

Instruction - intentional professional development by diversifying curriculum

Support faculty professional development training for effective teaching strategies

Escala

Achieving the Dream

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High School completion programs where students are in an environment where they feel like they belong and their potential supported.

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HSI and MSI work is being incorporated into our updated strategic plan, positions created in both student services and academic areas for a holistic approach to better serving our students.

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Better collect and communicate the data to advocate for the change needed. Communiciate change takes time and movement takes time

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Affinity groups

Pathway programs

Cohorts (Daniel's Fund, First Year Experience)

Summer Bridge

Hispanic Heritage Month activities

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We have Emergency Funds available for students who may have basic needs. Hiring bilingual staff, using translation software, and CCA website in Spanish.

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Strategic Plan can be adpated and evolve, just because we did it one way, doesnt me we cannot adapt it to fit the current context

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Those leading from the middle who have direct connect to students, frontline staff, and to leadership. Cultural Centers and Access Center programs.

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Know your communities well enough to know what you need to do to build relationships. And if you don't know them, then start reaching out and just listen and learn before you start talking.

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Ethics study courses at MSU and have been operating for the last 50+ with multi-cultural programs

CCD have a constant change in leadership and need to figure out how to institutionalizes on their efforts to it to keep the momentum

CCA has been doing it for a long time, work with equity and been one of the first school to get a HSI. It’s part of what they do every single day. Renew both TRIO grants.

Front Range has a HSI task force been working on it for a long time. Has outside help but hasn’t had much progress and needs to rebuild

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Better track and identify the work that has been done and how can always improve

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President, Vice Presidents, Northeastern Nation (grassroots group of employees of all types), Director of Student Success, Equity and Inclusion , Director of Academic Opportunity, Monahan Learning Center Director (TRIO coordinator), International Student Coordinator.

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Expanding the Call Center, sharing information & cross collaboration with other departments to best serve students.

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Budget, when campus as a whole is already in a budget defecit

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Diversity in the faculty and staff has increased

Connect with students in their language

Programs and materials in other languages

Expanded Basic Needs Support

TRiO

Title III grant - First-Gen forward

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Our president has been vocally supportive and gave the HSI committee a budget, but beyond that there hasn't been any other clear directives or involvement from leadership. As a committee, we would like a collective vision aligned across the institution. We also would like to engaged students more through building initiatives.

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Know the history and cultures of Colorado. We are not all the same. One model isn't going to work across the state. So before you dream and create visions, learn about the history and cultures then partner with communities and let them take the lead in creating the dreams and visions.

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Not able to use the words needed to describe the work, such as equity, inclusion, Latine, etc.

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Dr. Brownlee, Dr. Marquez & VP-Clair Collins.

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The work being over politicized and halted due to fear

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Keeping it in our strategic plan, tracking in student surveys and IR reporting, strong support from administration, data informed discussions with information from IR departments, holding community round tables.

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Having set back right now - need to under ground and keep going...using sneaky power to get things done. Keep doing the work in the spheres that we are able to.

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Being in community and finding the spaces where you can do the work

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Escala collaboration for faculty and staff

Perkins Grant

Student events

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Sharing resources and stay connected to the mission

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communicating more clearly and checking in more often. Building clear goals and being transparent institution wide.

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Limited staffing and resources (funding). Multi-role positions where many staff are already overworked. Difficulty attracting minority staff and faculty due to a rural, agricultural demographic. Conflicting priorities from CCCS, CDHE, and our own institution.

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There previously wasn't representation in the past and now there are more folks who bring voice and agency to the table...they are the hope and can bring rising leaders with us.

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Puente Program (like Summer Bridge but for Latine nursing students)

HSI Week preceding Hispanic Heritage Month

More bilingual signage and materials (e.g., land acknowledgement)

HSI Advisory Committees (Community, Fac/Staff, Student)

Bilingual/Spanish sessions during family orientation

Equity Audit in STEM

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Look at Latino Advocacy Day as a model for a fully integrated bicultural, bilingual event that holistically serves our group.

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CCA offers professional development opportunities we bring guest speakers like Dr. Gina Garcia. & Dr. Marla Franco leaders in HSI. CCA is also part of CoCeal!

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Remember that failures are inevitable. Generate more passion for this work through increased engagement with other people. Prioritizing essential needs. Always keep pushing forward and learning more from our students.

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Annette Hernandez Administrative Assistant III

Veronica Chavez Department chair for Humanities

Liliana Renteria MendozaAssociate Dean for Instructional Operations

Hector Sambolin, Jr. Associate Dean of Student Affairs

Paula Texeira CAD program coordinator

Josephine Thibodeau care manager Dean of Students Office

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Invite diverse voices to the table AND make sure they are not tokenized, they know they belong, and they have agency. If you are invited to the table, you belong there.

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Being clear with our intentions and work. Lack of internal conversations as a whole institution. We aren't clear on an institutional why.

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Open House with all departments

Cohorts

One leads (first gen programs)

Hiring more fac/staff of color

First Year Experience

Curriculum adjustment

Changing deficit language

Equity audits

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CCA is an HSI/MSI. Oversees anti-DEI legislation and the threat of losing funding.

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Having faculty backing you up is a game changer because they have a lot of weight and influence to what changes in courses.

Equity academy structure for staff and faculty and design to meet the needs of both parties. And creating queues and the math department used to for years and now showing other departments to show and share data. To look at those gaps and see how to close the gaps. Those data can get the grants for TRIO

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Not getting stuck in the small stuff. Keep doing the work until someone tells us otherwise. Not asking for permission to stand. We have a responsibility to do this work and that doesn't go way, even if leadership doesn't necessarily agree.

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Work to alleviate fear that the vision is not going to hurt the college, even when dealing with struggles. Create connections and an environment that encourages participation, education, and community.

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Equity talk to equity walk - Book for data and trying to utilize that to help programs and get funding and support the work that needed

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Institutionalized efforts and are using general funds and not grant fund to serve our students.

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HSI Advisory Committee

Shared Governance with the students

Open Communication with leadership/fac/staff/students

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better at highlighting successes

Marketing office highlights the students who are changemakers

Use Sharepoint to promote upcoming events

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Empowering staff and students to be honest and collaborate on initiatives.

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Expanding buildings, opportunities, and partnerships (BuildStrongAcademy).

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Inviting the community into our work and giving them agency to share what the institution is doing well and not so great, being a part of hiring committees, and other key campus initiatives

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The work is tied to a specific person or program and whey they leave, that work leaves with them and things rubber band back to what things were like before or that work is just forgotten

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Take a look at the work that is already being done and build on that.