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Educators for Equity, Diversity, and Cultural Consciousness (EEDCC)

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Current Membership

Co-Chairs:
Michael Mufson (Performing Arts)
Laura Padilla (Ethnic Studies)

Members:

Krista Carraway (ESL)
Marcela Gamez (Languages & Literature)
Henry Cen (Biology)
Elena Hood (American Indian Studies)
Brianna Stanley (Art)
Alyssa Vafaei (DRC)

Meetings

EEDCC meets on the 2nd and 4th Fridays from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM on Zoom.

Core Values

As activists to the Faculty Senate, this subcommittee will disrupt the status quo by dismantling and eradicating inequities. We challenge others to be uncomfortable and do the transgressive work towards the shared goal of infusing equity and antiracism throughout our college. We will rebuild, critically question, challenge, engage, reexamine equitable praxis, and validate the cultural agency of the entire Palomar College Community with particular attention towards serving students.

Assignments/Responsibilities

  • Offer and sustain cultural conscious training programs, workshops, and activities.
  • Advise faculty on matters of diversity, equity, and cultural consciousness.
  • Identify and develop opportunities for further implementation and integration of diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural consciousness in the classroom, curriculum, and hiring.
  • Consult with TERB on matters of faculty evaluation related to cultural consciousness.
  • Report to the Faculty Senate and Superintendent/President on primacy issues pertaining to diversity, equity, and cultural consciousness.

EEDCC Statement on the Israel-Palestine Conflict in Gaza

The Educators for Equity, Diversity, and Cultural Consciousness Subcommittee (EEDCC) is disturbed and saddened by the current violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  As a committee, we call for an end to violence against innocent Israeli and Palestinian civilians.  The Committee understands and sympathizes with the complexity of the issues involved and calls for people of goodwill to find peaceful resolutions to the conflict.  

As part of our mission to “infuse equity and anti-racism throughout our college,” the Committee believes that one can legitimately criticize Israeli policies towards Palestinians without ascribing to anti-Semitic ideology.  Individuals can also condemn the violence of Hamas and other organizations without similarly ascribing to anti-Muslim or anti-Arab ideologies.  The Committee asks that everyone remember innocent civilians are being harmed as we speak and whatever our differences, we all still share a common humanity.