1. Equity by Design in Action Dakota County Technical College
Wendy Marson, Director of Institutional Research
Data prepared also by: Steven Christiansen and Allison Reeck, Analysts
Additional Research conducted by: Brandon Groff and Haley Hanson, UW-Stout interns

3. Median Income – Dakota County
2016

4. Tracking our progress – 2013- 2016
Fall 2013
Initiated New Diversity Council (now Equity and Inclusion Council)
Initiated three “Learning Circles” - Employee Engagement, Multicultural Recruitment, and Student Success
Established an intentional approach to the success of Students of Color
Incorporated meaningful/ongoing equity and inclusion training at all faculty/staff in-services
Relaunched the Multicultural Student Leadership Association – weekly meetings and the sharing of a monthly event series on Cultural Competency
This will be Harold’s slide about what they did beginning in 2013 to address this

5. Tracking our Progress – 2017
Presented anecdotal perspectives on closing the opportunity gap at the ASA conference Diversity Officer in collaboration with the system's Equity Inclusion Office presented at DCTC's in-service Partnership developed with Institutional Research to implement a quantitative and qualitative study to better understand gaps in student outcomes Study completed and findings are being disseminated Initial findings shared with Faculty Shared Governance and Faculty Department Chairs

6. Tracking our Progress – 2018 and forward
FY 2019
Piloting an equity-minded mentoring pilot program (staff, faculty, and administrators)
Pairing at-risk students with faculty/staff mentors
Monthly meetings of all mentors/mentees around a success topic
Created Equity/Inclusion Committee at DCTC

7. Tracking our Progress - Data
As a part of its Program Efficiency process, a new metric being tracked at DCTC is the course success (A, B, C, P) ratio of SOC to White students by program/subject.
wendy

8. Quantitative Study Student Success and the Equity Gap
The research plan for this data was adapted from the Equity Policy Institute (October 2017 at St. Paul College) and from the Chief Diversity Officer retreat (November 2017)

9. Equity Gap
Steven
(I.E., the difference in success percentage points for SOC compared to White students by semester by department)

11. Next Steps

12. Why the next steps may be difficult
Harold