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CCA Podcast features CVHEC Equity, Race and Social Justice Taskforce June 22

 

A new podcast series by Complete College America, “CCA On the Air,” will feature Virginia Madrid-Salazar, strategies lead for the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium, discussing “Committing to Systemic Equitable Change” June 22.

Streaming on all platforms since February, the podcast’s short episodes feature candid conversations with higher education leaders on a variety   of topics related to student success, college completion and advancing CCA’s mission, said Brandon Protas, Ed. D., who is the  strategy director for Complete College America.

For the June 22 edition, Virginia will be joined by Lais Martinez, assistant  commissioner for EDI, Utah System of Higher Education as she talks about CVHEC’s Equity, Race, and Social Justice Taskforce and its regional approach to the equity work.

“The work of the Equity, Race and Social Justice Taskforce is very unique in that it not only represents intersegmental collaboration, but it’s a regional approach,” said Madrid-Salazar. “Our approach is definitely of interest to our national partners. Our region continues to lead the way and this attention only serves to elevate the importance of the work.”

Launched in November 2020, CVHEC’s 17-member, intersegmental taskforce is examining practices, barriers and policies that impede education with equity in the nine-county region of California’s Central Valley. This effort includes a three-pronged workgroup strategy to assess and recommend action for its member institutions – 29 colleges and universities from Stockton to Bakersfield. The first phase of the taskforce’s work will be shared with the CVHEC Board in August and to all CVHEC partners at the CVHEC Higher Education Legislative and Policy Summit planned for December 2021.

Established in 2009, Complete College America advocates nationally for dramatically increasing college completion rates and closing equity gaps by working with states, systems, institutions and partners to scale highly effective structural reforms and promote policies that improve student success.

As a CCA Alliance Team member, CVHEC has access to technical assistance on its strategy efforts including 15 to Finish and Corequisite Support.

See the podcast June 22 here. 

 

 

 

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CVHEC eyes recommendations by state equity taskforce for implementation

Post-secondary systems seeking to emerge from the pandemic stronger and better able to help all learners thrive can look to a new report by California’s Recovery with Equity Taskforce that provides recommendations the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium will explore during an upcoming Higher Education Fall 2021 Summit Series.

Recovery with Equity: A Roadmap for Higher Education After the Pandemic, submitted recently to Governor Gavin Newsom and the Governor’s Council for Post-Secondary Education, includes a series of interconnected, interdependent recommendations developed by the state taskforce to help post-secondary systems.

Dr. Lande Ajose, who chairs the Governor’s Council for Post-Secondary Education and created the taskforce, said, “Student success in higher education is critical to the health of our state and regional economies. We need to ensure that California’s systems of higher learning fully recover from the pandemic and thrive, while keeping students our number one priority. Their success is inextricably tied to the future of California.”

The report’s 11 recommendations are organized to advance four guiding principles:  Fostering Inclusive Institutions, Streamlining Pathways to Degrees, Facilitating Student Transitions and Simplifying Supports for Student Stability.

It concludes with actions that leaders in California can pursue to support California’s post-secondary institutions recover from the pandemic more equitable and resilient than before, and more aligned with the economic needs of the state.

Dr. Benjamin Duran, CVHEC executive director, said the consortium, which consists of the leaders of 29 colleges in the nine-county Central Valley region, will review the recommendations and begin collaborating for implementation.

“We look forward to sharing out the Central Valley’s equity, dual enrollment and transfer efforts and aligning them with the Recovery with Equity recommendations,” Duran said. (See the story in this issue about the CVHEC Equity, Race, and Social Justice Taskforce).

Read the full story and report recommendations.

 

 

 

 

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