Equity Plan

San Diego City College develops a formal Equity Plan every three years in alignment with guidance from the California Community College Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO). The 2019-2022 plan was developed by the Student Success Equity Taskforce consisting of administrators, faculty, classified professionals and students that coordinates and evaluates equity-focused programs. This body reported to the Student Success Initiatives Council (SSIC), which was created to facilitate and coordinate integration of categorical and campusbased initiatives including those, focused on equity related interventions.

Activities in the 2019-2022 plan supported progress of disproportionately impacted student groups in four success metrics: transfer to a four-year institution,

Activities in the 2019-2022 plan supported progress of disproportionately impacted student groups in four success metrics: transfer to a four-year institution, attaining the Vision Goal Completion metric, completing transfer English and math in the first year of enrollment, and retention from fall to fall at the same college.

attaining the Vision Goal Completion metric, completing transfer English and math in the first year of enrollment, and retention from fall to fall at the same college. Specific strategies included professional development for faculty and staff; peer mentoring; services that support students’ mental wellbeing and career, transfer, and academic success; counseling services to all first time to college students through general counseling and first year programs such as Promise, Umoja, Puente, City Scholars; instructional design and delivery including accelerated math, English Language Acquisition courses (ELAC), and concurrent support courses; targeted student engagement programming including City Women Rock leadership Conference, Hermanos Unidos-Brothers United Conference for men of color; and other interventions including university field trips to promote transfer and expose students to four-year institutions.

The 2022-2025 plan is in development. The planning process has been adjusted to accommodate a new plan structure and updates to the data and methodology identifying disproportionately impacted student groups provided by the CCCCO. In alignment with changes in City’s participatory governance structure, development of the plan is being led by the City Student Journey Committee, which has merged the SSIC and Enrollment Management groups into one entity providing oversight for all aspects of the student journey from initial contact to successful completion. Workgroups drawn from the Student Journey and IDEAAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-racism, Accessibility, and Sustainability) committees and their reporting subgroups examined disproportionate impact across five success metrics: successful enrollment, completion of transfer-level math and English, retention from first primary term to secondary term, completion, and transfer.

The new plan structure calls for identification of the following elements for each metric:

• Population experiencing the most significant disproportionate impact • Target outcomes for 2022-25 • Structural evaluation of current policies, processes, practices, and culture impacting equitable outcomes, and what changes would be necessary to make these structures more equity-minded • Intended recipients of the change, with action steps • Identification of support needed from the CCCCO

The draft plan will be reviewed and approved by college constituency and governance groups before final submission in November 2022.