Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Employment Opportunities
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Diversity and inclusivity are at the heart of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø's core values. The District is intentional in creating an environment that embraces and celebrates diversity in our student body, faculty, staff and administration, and has a focus on equity practices and hiring through an equity lens.
The District recognizes that a diverse workforce achieved through equal employment opportunity results in many benefits for our students, employees, and community at large. The District believes that it must take active and vigorous steps to ensure equal employment opportunity and to create an environment that will foster diversity and promote excellence.
The District's EEO Plan includes the designation of a Districtwide EEO Advisory Committee comprised of full-time faculty, part-time faculty, classified staff, administrators, college equity staff, and a student representative. This committee acts as an advisory body to the EEO Officer and the District as a whole to promote understanding and support of equal employment opportunity policies and procedures.
District EEO Officer and Chair of the EEO Advisory Committee:
Julianna D. Mosier - (559) 243-7100
District Director of EEO/Diversity and Professional Development and Co-Chair of the EEO Advisory Committee:
Christine Phillips - (559) 243-7171
The District strictly prohibits any form of harassment or discrimination and has established the following District Policies, Administrative Regulations, and Board Resolutions to affirm its commitment to not only an environment free from harassment and discrimination, but also to an environment that promotes diversity, cultural awareness, mutual respect, and equity.
A District Incident Reporting Form to submit a complaint regarding a violation of the District's EEO Plan or Discrimination/Harassment policies can be found by clicking on the button below:
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Suggested Resources/Links
Anti-Racism Resources
Moving Beyond Diversity to Racial Equity
To actualize racial equity, it is incumbent upon us to determine how to use our positions of privilege, influence and power to transform lives through education, particularly for our racially minoritized and marginalized students and community. We cannot talk about equity without talking about inequality. We cannot talk about inclusion without talking about oppression. We cannot say we are committed to equity and be afraid to have an open dialogue about structural racism. We cannot talk about structural racism without talking about anti-racism.
Take a more critical look at what informs your worldview by exploring these Anti-Racism Resources.
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø Racism by Robin Di Angelo and Michael Eric Dyson
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
- So You Want to Talk Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by John Lewis and Michael D’Orso
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
- The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
- Choke Hold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
- Engaging the Race Question in U.S. Higher Education by Alicia C. Dowd and Estela Mara Bensimon
- From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education by , , and
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
- Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation by
