Fostering a Culture of Respect, Equity, and Access
Provide professional development training specifically addressing support for our African American/Black students and promoting antiracism in curriculum and teaching to ensure action is taking place.
This August 2020, the Empowered Women channel launched on Microsoft Teams. Around November 2020, no date confirmed yet, Palomar College will be hosting a virtual event for the American Association for Women in Community College, San Diego Chapter. If you would like to join the Empowered Women channel, please join the Equity and Inclusion Teams.… Read the rest “Empowered Women Projects at Palomar this Fall”
The Palomar College Fall 2020 plenary event was designed with a strong focus on two areas, online teaching and institutionalizing antiracism.
For our first day of plenary, several of our Palomar employees volunteered their time to lead valuable workshops to help Palomar College institutionalize antiracism, which included the following workshops: “Combating Racism: How you can make a difference,” “Bridges, not Walls: Palomar College Puente Program,” “From Black Lives Matter to Black Students Matter: How Can You Help Support Umoja Students Virtually?”… Read the rest “Plenary 2020 Dedicated to Antiracism Work & Action”
Alexandra Doyle Bauer and Monica Diego at Palomar College created a Black Lives Matter and Asian Pacific Islander resource guide for the library. Thank you for your leadership towards racial equity at Palomar College! The BLM resource guide is here and the API guide can be found here.
Our Palomar Pride Center and colleagues have put together a really wonderful pronoun guide to share with campus.
Pronouns are an important part of gender identity and a way for people to show respect for people and their gender. Traditionally male pronouns are he/him/his, traditionally female pronouns are she/her/hers.… Read the rest “Palomar College Pronoun Project”
We wanted to encourage everyone (faculty, staff, admin) to enroll in the Africana Studies 101 class this fall being offered by Drs Rafiki Jenkins and Martin Japtok. More information can be found here. If you have trouble enrolling, don’t hesitate to reach out and ask for help! … Read the rest “Africana Studies for Staff, Faculty, and Admin at Palomar College”
White Allies for Antiracism at Palomar College
A new group has formed at Palomar College over the summer to support antiracist efforts. This group is open to and inclusive of all employees of Palomar College. This group’s focus is listening, learning, collaborating, and acting in support of BIPOC colleagues at Palomar College. … Read the rest “White Allies for Antiracism at Palomar College”
This summer Palomar College held a Black Lives Matter Vigil, two Equity forums and healing circles and a region X forum to support Black Indigenous and People Of Color. Please sty tuned for additional forums as they occur throughout the year!
… Read the rest “Palomar College Joins USC Equity Alliance”Palomar College is very excited about this opportunity. Being a part of this alliance will mean a sustained year-long professional development program. Each month we will get to send 5 people to the monthly e-convening where they will spend 3 hours in a deep dive of the content and the final hour will be spent learning how to teach the content to our campus.
Drs. Hossna Sadat and Luis Guerrero are presenting at this years plenary on methods to decolonize ones syllabus to make it within the antiracist framework. They will be working with campus groups this year to determine if this can be an institutionally adopted practice. … Read the rest “Decolonizing Syllabi & Institutionalizing at Palomar College”
PCTV Antiracist Video Project
As we continue to build an antiracist culture at Palomar College, we want to capture the incredible work, impactful testimonials, and active collaboration that is going on all over our College. To do so, our award winning PCTV crew will be producing a documentary on our progress, challenges, and achievements.… Read the rest “PCTV to Document Antiracist Actions at Palomar College”