1. Diversity: Unlearning to Relearn
September 26, 2019
Board of Trustees
Mendocino-Lake Community College District

2. Why talk about Diversity?
Adoption of diversity, equity and inclusion integration plan
Adoption of a California Community Colleges Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement, that will be used to make changes to title v – mission of the CCC system, EEO plan templates, and multiple measures
Support for the budget proposal submitted by the Taskforce

3. Today’s Objectives Speaking as one voice Emphasize Eliminate Improve
Know
Allyship
Emphasize value of diversity
Eliminate misconception of diversity and its effects
Improve the management of diversity
Know definitions related to diversity
Becoming an ally for the historically underrepresented

4. Please Write a One Sentence Definition of:
DIVERSITY
A Challenge (1 of 2)

5. Did any of the following words appear in your definition?
Different
Individual
Equity (Equitable)
Race
Unlike Characteristics
Diverse
Minorities
Unique
Variety
A Challenge (2 of 2)
Did any of the following words appear in your definition?

6. Definition of Diversity
Diversity includes all the ways in which people differ, and it encompasses all the different characteristics that make one individual or group different from another.
A broad definition includes race, ethnicity, and gender…as well as age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, and physical appearance.
Emphasize

7. Understanding Context
Historical, social, political.
Eliminate

8. U.S. History Genocide Slavery Camps
Previous actions of genocide, slavery, internment camps and structural racism
Genocide
Slavery
Camps

9. Historically Underrepresented
Improve and Know
Evolving Terminology
Key concepts and terms
Historically Underrepresented
Implicit Bias
Explicit Bias
Micro-aggressions
Privileged
Also known as unconscious or hidden bias, implicit biases are negative associations that people unknowingly hold. They are expressed automatically, without conscious awareness.
Involves consciously held, self-reported attitudes that shape how people evaluate or behave towards members of a particular group.
Brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether inention or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative prejudicial slights.
An underrepresented group describes a subset of a population that holds a smaller percentage within a significant subgroup.
Belonging to a group that enjoys special privileges. Under diversity, we mean a racial group.

10. Evolving Terminology Improve and Know Key concepts and terms Culture
Ethnicity
Race
Prejudice
Discrimination
A social system of meaning and custom that is developed by a group of people to assure its adaptation and survival. Distinguished by a set of unspoken rules.
Smaller social groups based on characteristics such as shared sense of group membership, values, behavioral patterns, language, political and economic interests, history and ancestral geographical base.
A political construction created to concentrate power with white people and legitimize dominance over non-white people.
A pre-judgment or unjustifiable, and usually negative, attitude of one type of individual or groups toward another group and its members.
The unequal treatment of members of various groups based on race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, physical ability, religion and other categories. And it’s illegal…

11. Evolving Terminology Improve and Know Key concepts and terms Equity
Inclusion
Structural Racism
Racial equity is achieved when a historically marginalized group is given the necessary resources to have the same successful outcomes as the non-marginalized group.
The normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics – historical, cultural, institutional and interpersonal – that routinely advantage Whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color.
Authentically bringing traditionally excluded individuals and/or groups into processes, activities, and decision/policy making in a way that shares power.

12. Structural/Systemic Racism
Although groups have significantly different experiences in the United States, all groups viewed as being non-white have been subordinated, excluded, and marginalized, at one time or another, by institutional practices, popular beliefs, and habits that implicitly or explicitly support the dominant narrative. We can also expand this to women and the LGBTQ+ community.
Eliminate

13. Equality, Equity, Structural Racism
Improve and Know
Equality, Equity, Structural Racism
Identifying patterns/practices in our society
Equality
Equity
Eliminating Structural Racism

14. Let us not forget the definition and purpose of Equity for CCC
Improve and Know
EQUITY =
STUDENT EQUITY
Let us not forget the definition and purpose of Equity for CCC

15. What term(s) do you see here?

16. What term(s) do you see here?

17. Re-visit Objectives Speaking as one voice Emphasize Eliminate Improve
Know
Allyship
Emphasize value of diversity
Eliminate misconception of diversity and its effects
Improve the management of diversity
Know definitions related to diversity
Becoming an ally for the historically underrepresented

18. What is an ally and how can you be one?
Take On
Stand Up
Take on the struggle as your own
Stand up, even when you feel scared
Allyship
What is an ally and how can you be one?
Transfer
Acknowledge
Transfer the benefits of privilege to those who lack it
Acknowledge that while you, too, feel pain, the conversation is not about you

19. Kids explain Allyship

20. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
You are our students strongest allies
Inclusion
Diversity
Equity
Providing resources to have successful outcomes
Students, staff and community
As an institution, we are an ally

21. Thank You