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.

If you are interested in joining the committee, email diversity@clackamas.edu

DEI Committee Charter

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

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.

• Interim Equitable Decision-Making Framework

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

Beyond Words

The mission of Beyond Words is to encourage all CCC employees to learn and engage with topics surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion through book discussions. This will be accomplished through group discussions on a shared book choice with colleagues that invite humility, accountability, and collective exploration into how these topics influence our students, employees, surrounding communities, and the college as a whole. This resource group strives to go “beyond words” to create equitable change for the betterment of our college community.

Want to participate in Beyond Words this term? You can self-enroll in the ERG Moodle Shell, 2023-24 Beyond Words ERG to get more information from the facilitators. Questions? Email Mike Farrell (mike.farrell@clackamas.edu) or diversity@clackamas.edu

We acknowledge that the Clackamas Community College campuses reside on the traditional homelands of the Clackamas, Cascades, and Tumwater bands of Chinooks, as well as the Tualatin and Pudding River bands of Kalapuya and the Northern Molalla people. They lived and prospered by maintaining strong cultural ties to the land, and through wise management of resources. As signers of the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, they were removed from their homelands to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation where they became members of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Please join us in taking this opportunity to thank and honor the original caretakers of this land, their lives, and their descendants that live on as Tribal members today, still carrying on the traditions and cultures of their ancestors.