UC San Diego Cross-Cultural Center 2020-2021 Year-End Review
A Unit of the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Table of Contents Executive Summary 01 Vision, Mission, and Philosophy 02 Internship Program 03 Student Centered Programming 04 Affiliates Program and Student Leadership 05 Social Justice Leadership Academy 06 Social Justice Education Programs 07
Art and Activism Programs 09 Social Media Engagement 10 Alumni Roots 11 Community Engagement 12 Cross-Cultural Center Staff Engagement 13 Academic and Faculty Engagement 15 Remote Engagement 16
Executive Summary The 2020-21 proved to have many challenges as well as opportunities on multiple fronts. The Center explored new ways of building community, expanded our social justice work through campus outreach, and increased visibility of our online presence. The Center showed that on-line and remote programs had many advantages including increased outreach and engagement through intern positions and targeted marketing efforts, educational content developed for on-line audiences, partnering with faculty to make classroom sessions open to public, and increased student organizational affiliation opportunities and resources. The new ways the CCC pushed our work and thinking showed engagement not only supported current students, but also gave us new avenues to engage alumni, artists, and community members. Through all the uncertainty and stress of the year, interns and staff stayed true to our social justice roots by presenting on topics such as our Black Voices Educational Campaigns, “Breaking it Down with the CCC” Powtoon series, social justice webinars, alumni roundtables, blogs, and so much more. Going forward it will be exciting to incorporate these experiences into future offerings as the Center goes forward under new leadership.
Vision, Mission, and Philosophy Our Mission The Cross-Cultural Center advocates for and supports UC San Diego’s efforts to become a more equity minded and inclusive campus. We provide the opportunity for historically underrepresented and underserved UC San Diego students and staff to learn about themselves, learn about others, develop as leaders, and to impact communities for social change. Our Vision To empower UCSD to recognize, challenge, and take proactive approaches to diversity for the campus and the San Diego community.
P. L. A. C. E. S. Philosophy Promoting respectful dialogues Leadership Affirmation of identities Community building Empowerment Social justice lens
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Student Centered Programming
Internship Program Interns during the 2020-2021 year researched and created programs based on their career or academic interests. These programs, referred to as Self-Initiated Programs (SIPs), infused their passion for social justice and their life trajectory into a culminating research project. They met with faculty mentors to help them develop their understanding of the topic, as well as learn about potential career and research opportunities. A highlight from this year was “Ethical Code in Psychological Research.” This program presented the history of Ethical Code, Eugenics, and what research communities in Psychology are doing to address historical grievances of marginalized groups. A total of 91 engaged in the topic. Additional sources to learn more about the topic were offered for those who attended the live program.
Student Initiated Programs
LP/YT
Ethical Code in Psychological Research
53/38
Implicit Biases in Psychological Services Re-imagining Foster Care for Vulnerable Youth Language Barriers: Hispanic Community vs Healthcare Providers The Importance of Art Education and Why We Should Fund It Labor Movements Towards Liberation
11/4 21/12 15/8 13/13 10/2
Where is Social Justice, Diversity, and 13/0 Inclusion in STEM The Fix: Decriminalizing Drug Use to End 18/7 the War on Drugs Total: 154/84
LP = Live Participation YT= Youtube Views 3
Most notable was the CCC’s work with a UC San Diego Ethnic Studies Department graduate student in collaboration with the Office of Graduate Studies. Conversation and writing programs for graduate students were hosted. Space was created for graduate students to present their research. Also of note were three pre-recorded outreach programs called “Cooking with the Cross.” These programs provided a pathway to draw students into the CCC’s virtual Center through brief presentations on topics related to environmentalism and tutorials on cooking quick, easy, and healthy meals.
Student Programs Summer Reading Club: “Are Prisons Obsolete” by Angela Davis (2 sessions) Thurgood Reads: “Are Prisons Obsolete” by Angela Davis (co-sponsorship) (4 sessions) Freedom is a Constant Struggle (grad program) Storytelling Circle (grad program) Graduate Students Work in Progress (grad program) Remixing for Transformative Justice (grad program) Works in Progress: Creative Arts (grad program) Influence of Photography and Collage Art on Social Justice Cooking with the Cross: Turning a Food Dessert Into an OASIS Cooking with the Cross: What Our Diet Does to the Environment Cooking with the Cross: How Does Food Waste Impact Us Conversation with CeCe Battle: Reckoning the Election (co-sponsorship) CalFresh Workshop (co-sponsorship)
LP/YT 10/*
Virtual Relaxation (grad program)
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41/* 24/* 10/* 11/* 11/* 3/* */17 */77 */28 */26 9/7 2/*
Total: 132/155 LP = Live Participation YT= Youtube Views *= No LP or YT
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Affiliates Program and Student Leadership The Cross-Cultural Center Affiliate Program provided direct support to over 100 student members from 18 Affiliated Student organizations, 6 of which are new this year. The CCC Affiliate Team provided direct support to student leaders through one to ones for goal planning and coaching, mixers, workshops, and trainings. Activities and events focused on providing opportunities for leadership development, career preparation, and skill-building, while also promoting collaboration and networking between different student organizations. New benefits included virtual drop-in office hours hosted by CCC staff, Affiliate highlights on Instagram stories, and an Affiliate group forum on Discord with over 50 members. Attendance at Affiliate events was particularly high this year, with a total of 136 participants across all events. The Leadership for Engagement and Advocacy Programs (LEAP) provided student leaders from affiliated student organizations with opportunities to meet with staff on goal planning and receive coaching on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory and CliftonStrengths. LEAP was recognized on the Co-Curricular Record which provided the 5 enrolled students an opportunity to feature their involvement on their academic transcript. Affiliate Programs Fall Affiliates Mixer: Spooky Community Building Fall Affiliates Meeting: December Updates
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Fall Affiliates Workshop: Virtual Tools Winter Affiliates Mixer: Online Engagement Tips and Tricks Winter Affiliates Meeting: February Updates Winter Affiliates Workshop: Collaboration and Community Spring Affiliates Mixer: Current Events & Us
19 12
Senior Send Off Transition Meeting
18 20
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The Social Justice Leadership Academy, a Co-Curricular Record (CCR) program, met with undergraduate students, and one graduate student this year to strengthen these learning outcomes and their application of social justice concepts: 1) Foundational skills using a social justice framework and knowledge 2) Leadership development and self-awareness 3) Interpersonal communication skills Two cohorts met in Winter and Spring Quarters for six sessions each, building up to their final teach-back group presentations of their chosen social justice topics. A total of 17 students participated in our 2021 Social Justice Leadership Academy.
SJLA Winter Quarter Teach-back Presentations Climate Change and Justice Prison Justice Reform Mental Health & Inequity Racial Diversity in STEM
6 12 18
Total: 136 5
Social Justice Leadership Academy
SJLA Spring Quarter Teach-back Presentations Environment and Human Rights Racial and Health Inequities Climate Justice
“ I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to be part of this. I learned a lot from the readings, conversations and teachback presentations. I’m interested in future opportunities like this, so I can learn more about social justice to see what I can do to help.” -SJLA participant
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Social Justice Education Programs New this year, all Cross-Cultural Center interns with specialized roles are also Social Justice Educators (SJEs) who initiated and created joint educational workshops for diverse audiences. The Hot Topic series, offered in winter and spring quarters, facilitated a conversational-based approach of selected social justice topics with thought-provoking questions that prompted participants to exchange critical perspectives. Recordings of social justice education workshops offered an additional advantage for campus members and the community at large to review educational content using the Cross-Cultural Center YouTube channel.
Fall 2020 SJE Programs Voter Rights Healthcare in Prisons Gender Identity Drag Queens and Community Activism
LP/YT 33/14 32/43 18/16 17/24
Total: 100/97
Winter 2021 SJE Programs
LP/YT
Health Literacy Hot Topic: Reproductive Rights Conscious Consumerism Hot Topic: Environmental Sustainability Rollerskating and Antiblackness
33/38 11/* 41/32 17/* 16/17
Hot Topic: Beauty and Fashion
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Spring 2021 SJE Programs
LP/YT
QTPOC Prison and Gender Abolition History of Walls and Borders Hot Topic: Decriminalizing Sex Work Capitalizing on Your Privileges Hot Topic: Women Financial Literacy
10/* 24/13 6/* 27/16 8/*
Sustainability and Consumption
22/15
Hot Topic: Covid19 Communities of Color
20/*
Total: 117/44 LP = Live Participation YT= Youtube Views *= No LP or YT
Total: 124/87 7
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Art and Activism Programs Specifically, this year art receptions became virtual artist talks and interns developed workshops centered in art and activism. The Cross-Cultural Center highlighted the work of artist, Diana Morales, who is an Indigenous Purepecha artist that creates art rooted in seed memory, oral storytelling, and language. Interns developed workshops that explored the art and history of Ball Culture as well as social movements in Chile where women developed revolutionary quilts as an act of resistance.
Art Programs
LP/YT
Creating Through Lived Experience Resilience and Versatility of Black Women
9/22 9/14
Rooted Art, Rooted People The Art of Ball Culture Arpilleras: Women, Politics, Art Fidella Lizeth
49/106 12/16 43/92 28/65
Total: 150/315
Social Media Engagement This year social media presence continued to increase, specifically through Instagram via a new development of social justice education campaigns. A newly developed series “Breaking it Down with The CCC” had over 1,214 views and increased overall engagement via social media platforms. Topics in this series ranged from professionalism and racism to climate change and pollution. This series created an interactive way for community members to engage with different social justice issues. Instagram continued to center Black voices in educational campaigns which focused on Black inventors, creators, and different moments in Black history. Other campaigns focused on decolonizing wellness, environmental justice, and current social movements. Overall, there was an increase of 95% in social media engagement and over 1,200 new accounts following CCC platforms.
Tool Instagram Facebook E-Newsletter Website Youtube Total
Subscribers 1,697 2,900 7,409 8,000 78 20,084
Annual Impressions 94,078 37,315 57,848 23,225 1,038 231,504
LP = Live Participation YT= Youtube Views
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Alumni Roots
Moving to a remote environment created growth opportunities for alumni engagement. During the 2020-21 academic year the Center held 5 roundtable talks. The industry-related talks gave current students a chance to explore career fields through a social justice lens. They were able to map their current campus and community involvement to skills they gained that will support future work and goals. Building on our Alumni Roots social media work, this year the CCC launched our H.U.G Network (Help Us Grow). The Network streamlined current student access to CCC Alumni directly. The page included mxntor/mxntee match system for students and alumni. Lastly, the site hosted a module system where information was shared about events, career advice, and other resources.
Alumni Table Talks
In its first full year of virtual programming, the Cross-Cultural Center connected with multiple campus groups to provide presentations about the Center’s programs and resources, virtual tabling opportunities and live question-and-answer sessions. Additionally, Center staff met with elementary, middle-school, high school, and community college students to discuss social justice topics. Requests for equity, diversity and inclusion engagement from campus departments increased sharply amid the surge of social and political turmoil, resulting in an uptick of the Cross-Cultural Center’s strong participation in campus-wide consultations with academic departments, colleges, students, and staff. Fall 2020 Community Engagement Welcome to the CCC
20
Social Justice 101
44
Black Joy Orientation
28
SDSI Grad Students
10
SDCC Student Leaders
12
Underground Scholars
21
Total: 135
LP/YT
Summer 2020 Community Engagement SSSP CCC Overview
42
Competitive Edge Grad
11
Total: 53
Spring 2021 Community Engagement Asian Pacific Islander Vigil
75
Triton Brunch
6
Social Justice in Law Social Justice in Art
18/41 8/17
Triton CCCP Talks
52
Triton Day & Transfer Student Triton Day
8
Social Justice in STEM Social Justice in Education Social Justice in Healthcare
9/39 16/33 3/4
MEChA High School Conference
15
Transfer Student Mixer
9
Warren College Orientation Leader
25
Total: 54/134 LP = Live Participation YT= Youtube Views
Winter 2021 Community Engagement 7th College Overview
40
API American Heritage Kick-off
285
Graduate Student Recruitment
60
Women in Physics
16
Urban Scholars (5 sessions)
27
APSA College Day
12
Kaibigang Pilipin@ HSC (2 sessions)
18
Spaces Overnight
20
Ocean Lovers Club
13
Delta Sigma Pi
50
Comienza con un Sueño (2 sessions)
34
Women in Law
9
Women in Science Society
10
Society for Students in Physics
16
University Link MedSci Program
14
OSTEM High School Collaboration
8
Total: 172
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Community Engagement
Total: 630
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Cross-Cultural Center Staff Engagement
Staff-Led Training
13
LP/YT
Staff Engagement Hours 300
Number of Hours
CCC staff engaged in university-wide initiatives related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. This included over 90 hours in staff involvement on 19 committees. The CCC organized the Equity Talks for Staff by Staff workshop signature series and facilitated social justice training for departments and student groups. Staff developed a session around social justice education via social media for the ACPA national conference, with over 70 people in attendance. Staff provided virtual support for student, staff, and alumni through “adhoc meetings,” with usually 3 topics being covered per visit and included 35 alumni, 39 student, and 58 staff visits. Staff spent 65 hours of campus engagement in meetings and activities such as community wellness webinars, healing spaces, brainstorming planning sessions, and timely policy updates impacting work environment.
250 200 150 100 50
Global Leadershi Summer Reading Club (3 sessions)
30/*
Summer Bridge Peer Mentor Trainings
45/*
Confronting Colonialism in Medicine
22/*
Medicine and Colonialism in Healing Arts
7/*
Equity Talks for Staff Allying
35/10
Equity Talks for Staff How Woke is Your Wokeness
38/11
UCSD Extension
2/*
Chancellor's Business Office
3/*
SLOAN STEM Grad Students
12/*
Revelle Leaders’ Summit
29/*
80
Chancellor’s Associates Scholarship Program (2 sessions)
18/*
70
Equity Talks for Staff Ableism
31/13
Equity Talks for Staff Afrofuturism
28/29
SDCC Antiblackness, Intersectionality
36/*
Biology Community Conversation
34/*
Engineer Allying Inclusive Practices
24/*
Equity Talks for Staff Justice for API Communities
43/10
Equity Talks for Staff Purpose of Power
23/18
Equity Talks for Staff Black Women in Leadership
20/8
Equity Talks for Staff Beyond the Likes
14/15
Implicit Bias and Anti-Racism Health Science
28/*
Total: 522/114
LP = Live Participation YT= Youtube Views *= No LP or YT
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1 on 1s
Committee Consultation
Outreach
Professional Student Org Development Advising
Training
Campus Engagement
Number of Meetings
Adhoc Meetings
60 50 40 30 20 10 0
Conflict Wellness/ Org and/or Academic Financial Resolution Balance Leadership
Mental Health
Current work
Peers
Family
Career
14
Remote Engagement
Academic and Faculty Engagement DJ and music Professor King Britt was our Faculty Artist in Residence. King Britt collaborated with the Cross-Cultural Center and invited community to participate in select class sessions on Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music featuring interactive interview sessions with renowned musical artists. Special sound guests expressed their creative process and ways the social landscape of the time shaped their music and the industry. Additionally, King Britt partnered with UCSD’s ArtPower and the Cross-Cultural Center to bring digital exhibits and 2 nights of Sound of Humanity with musical producers. Also, staff engaged with academic departments and faculty in areas of social equity consultations, trainings, campus-wide program planning such as UCSD’s first 21-Day Anti-Racism Challenge panel presentations, book presentation and reading groups, podcast, and cultural celebrations such as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage.
CCC staff supported campus on national issues. This included over 360 hours in EDI Programs and Events that supported DEI content. Of note, was Center staff leadership in the 21-Day Anti-Racism Challenge where over 4,000 faculty, staff and students went through an intensive 4 weeks of reading articles, watching videos, and attending webinars on Anti-Black Racism. Staff also took advantage of remote professional development with activities like national conference presentations and attendance as well as building skills in remote programs, national/political higher education trends, and technical training. CCC staff engaged in over 280 hours of professional development. The CCC expanded its reach with over 100 connections, keeping faculty and staff abreast of Center opportunities and programs. Fourteen new student organization connections were made, resulting in 11 unique programs/workshops, such as a Transfer Student Mixer. Of those 14, the Affiliate Program increased its membership with 6 new student organizations. A total of 1,038 viewed post-live program recordings on the CCC’s YouTube Channel.
Remote Reach *
Academic & Faculty Engagement 21 Day Anti-Racism Challenge Afrofuturism in Electronic Music: Robert Hood
4,204 17
Afrofuturism in Electronic Music: Santigold Afrofuturism in Electronic Music: DJ Jazzy Jeff ArtPower Sound for Humanity
22 26 113
Total: 4,382
Social Justice Education Workshops Intern Self-Initiated Programs
224 106
Art Receptions Staff-led trainings Other Student Programs Alumni Programs
315 114 156 123
Total: 1,038 *Aggregated from other sections in this report
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ABOUT US The Cross-Cultural Center is committed to supporting the needs of UCSD’s campus communities by creating a welcoming and holistic learning environment for everyone. Our vision at the Cross-Cultural Center is to empower UCSD to recognize, challenge, and take proactive approaches to diversity for campus as a whole. As part of the UC San Diego Campus Community Centers, we value differences and building relationships at all levels of the university and experience community and diversity through a broad lens.
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