Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In October 2017, Clackamas Community College (CCC) embarked on a formal journey to create a welcoming environment for students, employees and community members with the establishment of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is a college-wide committee with diverse representation from across the institution.

The purpose of the DEI committee is to guide and hold the institution accountable in the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all aspects of the work at Clackamas Community College.

DEI Committee Charter

Subcommittees are aligned with priorities and goals identified in the 2020 DEI Strategic Plan. Subcommittees create an opportunity for members of the college community to engage in implementation of the DEI Strategic Plan. Inquiries about subcommittees should be directed to diversity@clackamas.edu.

• Employee Resource Group: The subcommittee will review and approve employee resource/affinity groups.
• Human Resources: The subcommittee works to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion in talent acquisition, training opportunities and employee retention.
• Marketing and Communications: The subcommittee works closely with the College Relations and Marketing Department to review college communications to ensure they are inclusive and accessible.
• Resources and Training: The subcommittee insures the provision of diversity, equity, and inclusion training and resources to students, employees, and the CCC community.
• Strategic Plan: The subcommittee tracks implementation and reporting related to the DEI Strategic Plan.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee was formally charged to lead this effort. The College hired consultants to support this work in winter quarter 2019. The College community, under the leadership of the DEI Strategic Planning team, executive leadership of Dr. Tim Cook, President, and the College's Leadership Cabinet, participated in a year-and-a-half long process to generate the DEI Strategic Plan.

The plan offers insight into the current strengths and areas for improvement for the College as related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The Strategic Priorities and accompanying goals and objectives have been identified through an inclusive and rigorous process of data collection from students and employees through, visioning, asset-mapping, a climate survey, and focus group engagements as part of the planning process.

The plan has identified Student Success, Belonging, Empathy and Respect as guiding values related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Three Strategic Priorities with accompanying goals and objectives were developed to focus on the following areas:

1. Build the foundation needed to create and sustain a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture at CCC.
2. Identify and eliminate equity gaps for students.
3. Align instructional culture with principles and practices of equitable and inclusive teaching and learning.

The recommendations outlined in the DEI Strategic Plan are expected to be fully implemented over a three-year period, ending in 2023.

• DEI Strategic Plan
• DEI Strategic Planning Progress Report

The DEI Strategic Plan identifies the need for development of a DEI Framework to help guide decision making at the college. In an effort to bring a framework to the college for use during the 2020-2021 school year, while spending time to develop a framework, the DEI Committee has adopted an interim equitable decision-making framework. 

The interim framework was adapted from Clark College’s Equitable Decision-Making Tool from the B.U.I.L.D. Training Program. Adoption of the interim framework allows the college to begin applying an equitable decision-making framework and become familiar with a structure for equitable decision-making. 

The DEI Committee is actively engaged in offering training on the interim framework to help college community members become familiar with the framework and its application. If you are seeking training on the framework, please complete the training request form. The DEI Committee is also seeking feedback on the interim framework. Feedback on the interim framework will be used to develop a framework moving forward in 2021-2022. The committee is asking that individuals who use the interim framework complete the feedback form.

• Interim Equitable Decision-Making Framework
• Interim DEI Framework Training Request Form
• Interim DEI Framework Feedback Form

Employee resource groups (ERGs) are voluntary groups of employees that organize to provide an opportunity for members of non-majority groups to formally gather and be recognized, and to engage in the diversity and inclusion efforts occurring at the college. ERGs are focused on engagement and retention for employees and are designed to support members of underrepresented or minority groups (e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, etc.).

For more information, please download the Employee Resource Group form or email diversity@clackamas.edu.

Active Employee Resource Groups at CCC

Employees of Living Color

Employees of Living Color is a community of CCC employees that has the mission of fostering the recruitment, retention and success of people of color at the college. This will be accomplished through mentoring, collecting and disseminating resources, networking and providing support, promoting and teaching self-care, and advocating, leading and/or participating in college initiatives, policies and regulations that support diversity, equity and inclusion.

The group meets bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. 

Please contact Guadalupe Martinez lupem@clackamas.edu or Maria Dixon mdixon@clackamas.edu to join this group or if you have any questions about the group.

Kaleidoscope

The mission of Kaleidoscope at Clackamas Community College is to build and maintain a positive work environment and to support the growth, development, and visibility of and resources for gender and sexuality minority professionals and students at CCC. This will be accomplished through activities such as networking, mentoring, educational and professional programs, community service, multicultural events, direct action and diversity awareness.

Please contact Beau Gilbert at beau.gilbert@clackamas.edu for meeting times and events or if you have any questions.

The abbreviated resource list below was compiled with information from the following sources: Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources; Code Switch's List of Books, Films and Podcasts About Racism; Bustle's 10 Books About Race; Oregon Women in Higher Education's Resource List; Pacific Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers' Resource List, compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein; input from members of the Resources/Library Subcommittee of the DEI Committee; input from Jane Littlefield in the CCC Library; and Jil Freeman in the Center for Teaching and Learning.

There is also a longer version of this resources list available to download.

Activities

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh)
• Racial Bias Test
• Review/reflect on the Pyramid of White Supremacy

Articles

• The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism (Audre Lorde)
• The Case for Reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• What's My Complicity? Talking White Fragility with Robin DiAngelo (Adrienne Van Der Valk, Anya Malley)
• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture (Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun)
• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? (Ibram X. Kendi)
• White Supremacy Culture (Tema Okun)

Books

• White Rage (Carol Anderson)
• Stamped From the Beginning (Ibram Kendi)
• Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• I'm Still Here (Austin Channing Brown)
• Me and White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)
• So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
• How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
• White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)
• Teaching to Transgress (bell hooks)
• The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)

Support

• Black-Owned Businesses (Directory for PDX businesses)
• Places to Donate compiled by Black Lives Matter
• PDX Protest Bail Fund

Films/TV Shows

• 13^th, available on Netflix
• I Am Not Your Negro, available on Amazon Prime
• If Beale Street Could Talk, available on Hulu

Podcasts

• Code Switch (NPR)
• Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist (Unlocking Us with Brené Brown)
• White Lies (NPR)
• 1619 (The New York Times)
• Seeing White (Scene on Radio)
• Intersectionality Matters! (The African American Policy Forum)
• Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey (Integrated Schools)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

Videos

• Dr. Robin DiAngelo Discusses "White Fragility"
• LeVar Burton's This Is My Story series
• Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon? A Hidden History

Additional Tools/Resources

• Jenna Arnold's Resources
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
• Save The Tears: White Woman's Guide
• Racial Equity Tools
• Racial Equity Toolkit
• Pacific University DEI Glossary
• Teaching Tolerance
• California Newsreel

We are pleased to announce the first book for CCC's Employee Book Club focused on diversity, equity and inclusion topics. This book club is open to all CCC employees, and financial assistance to purchase books is available.

Spring 2021 Theme

"Racial (in)justice Book Choice: I'm Still Here" by Austin Channing Brown

The goals are to encourage CCC employees to learn and engage with topics surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion, and discover and explore how these topics influence our students, employees, and the college as a whole. Book discussions will be held via Zoom throughout spring term.

Discussions will be facilitated in a format accessible to everyone regardless of what page you're on in the book. If you are interested in participating and would like to hear about updates, please fill out the form.

Have questions, suggestions, concerns, or an interest in becoming a facilitator; contact Beau at beau.gilbert@clackamas.edu.