FEDC Chair: Ed Gomez
Contact the FEDC Chair
FOR ACTIVISTS
Faculty Equity and Diversity Awards
CCA is proud to have initiated its Faculty Equity and Diversity Awards for outstanding service on behalf of community college faculty.
Award winners are honored during CCA’s annual Spring Conference. Nominations may be by self-nomination, chapter nomination, or any member may nominate another member. The nominee must agree to be nominated. Visit our Awards page for the nomination form.
Know Your Rights, California!
What you need to know: As communities across the country continue to confront the federal government’s dangerous, authoritarian violence, it’s important to know your rights and call for Congressional action. You can read more about this on the California Governors website.
FOR ADVOCACY
Faculty Equity & Diversity Committee (FEDC)
Committee charge (from CCA Bylaws)
- Shall examine CCA policies and functions to ensure that equity is maintained as stated in CCA policy and governing documents as well as in accordance with legal parameters;
- Shall study issues and recommend policies to the CCA Board and/or Council on affirmative action and equality concerns relating to higher education;
- Shall coordinate with other committees, task forces, and staff to ensure that minorities and women are represented in all public relations and communication materials that represent CCA; and,
- Should be made up of at least two of the At-large CCA Directors and local chapters’ faculty equity chairs.
- Shall include as ex-officio members one (1) Women’s Rights/Issues Director, one (1) LGBTQ+ Director, one (1) BIPOC Equity & Justice Director, and one (1) Part-Time Faculty Director.
GET INVOLVED
2024 – 2025 Committee
- Ed Gomez (Chair)
- Justin Bell
- Kristi Iwamoto
- Kenneth Lawler
- Josie Malik
- Patrick Mitchell
- Susan Pynes
- Vienna Sa
- Noushin Seddighzadeh
Statements on the Proliferation of Racist Acts and Incidents
“In response to deadly racist acts and incidents of police brutality, followed by multiple protests across the country…” —Eric Kaljumagi, CCA President
(read statement)— John Doe
“Time to come together to end the institutional racism that perpetuates centuries of paralyzing inequity“
—by Toby Boyd, CTA Past President
FOR MEMBERS
The Force Awakens
Held semi-annually in even-numbered years, the Force Awakens is a one-day, travel in/out strategic planning session that advises CCA on the association direction towards improved equity, diversity, and inclusion.
CCA/CTA members from around the state attend and work through the CCA Strategic Plan to identify areas and issues that need to be addressed to make CCA a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization.
FOR MEMBERS
CTA Equity Team for Higher Education
Every year, CTA establishes an Equity Team for Higher Education. In CTA, Higher education is made up of CCA, SCTA (Student CTA for college students going into teaching) and ICCUFA (the association for private colleges and universities). The Equity Team meets in July following the Presidents Conference to brainstorm on its action plan for the year. The objective is to look at equity across Higher Education and think of ways we can encourage equity and greater diversity.
Equity Planning Form Coming soon
FOR ADVOCACY
Racism Defined
Racism describes a system of power and oppression/advantage and disadvantage based on race. Structural racism is a system, or series of systems, in which institutional practices, laws, policies, social- cultural standards, and socio-political decisions establish and reinforce norms that perpetuate racial group inequities (Lawrence, Keleher, 2004). According to this definition, two elements are required in order for racism to exist: racial prejudice, and social power to codify and enforce this prejudice into an entire society (Bidol, 1970).
Racism = Prejudice + Power Within the context of the United State of America, and other nations, structural racism takes the form of white supremacy; the preferential treatment, privilege, power, access, networks, and access to opportunities available to white people, which often designate communities of color to chronic adverse outcomes (Lawrence, Keleher, 2004). Individual racism refers to a person’s racist assumptions, beliefs, or behaviors. Individual racism stems from conscious and unconscious bias and is reinforced by structural racism. Examples include prejudice, xenophobia, internalized oppression and privilege, and beliefs about race influenced by the dominant culture (Lawrence, Keleher, 2004).
