PAST EVENTS
For Everyone
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Time
ADOS, Sh**t-Hole Countries, and (Which) Black Lives Matter: Engaging Contemporary Intra-racial and Transnational Dynamics Surrounding Black College Students
NCORE Webinar Series
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
February 3, 2021
This session will focus on how the current U.S. sociopolitical climate (related explicitly to anti-Black racism and nativism) is impacting Black students of diverse ethnicities and nativities as well as Black intra-racial dynamics on campuses. We will use current racial movements (e.g., ADOS, Black Lives Matter) and incidents alongside our empirical research to share and co-construct strategies for supporting diverse Black students. This session should particularly benefit individuals working with Black, immigrant and/or international students as well as those interested in campus racial dynamics and/or internationalization. Participants attending this presentation will: connect the influence of the U.S. sociopolitical climate to the college experiences of diverse Black students, particularly racist nativism, anti-Blackness, racial homogenizing, and intra-racial dynamics (tensions and community); identify practices that address Black student heterogeneity and Black intra-racial dynamics across ethnicity and nativity; and assess whether their campus practices acknowledge Black student heterogeneity.
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For more information, visit: ADOS, XYZ Countries, and (Which) Black Lives Matter: Engaging Contemporary Intra-racial and Transnational Dynamics Surrounding Black College Students - NCORE
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For Everyone
Date
Time
The Audacity of Leading From a Racial Equity Lens
Presented by John Hamilton, ED.D.
3:00 pm
February 8, 2021
The panel will discuss the importance to lead from a racial equity lens to move an organization forward to address, disrupt, and set the balances to a more equitable campus environment from a racial equity and leadership lens. Dr. Lori Patton Davis, Dr. Pedro Noguera, Dr. Daniel O’Connor, and Dr. Ryan Holmes will help me with an engaging discussion to move the needle on leadership.
For Everyone
Date
Time
Hellfighter (1918 - Today)
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
February 19, 2021
This is a 4 generations deep story that unpacks the consistent struggles that African Americans have had moving into the middle-class in America. It is a story of some of America's greatest unsung war heroes, The Harlem Hellfighters (WWI) as well as Black units in WWII. Their heroism was traditionally rewarded with not being the pensions and GI Benefits that built the modern American middle class.
Historical Context and Topics Covered:
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WWI & The Black Soldier
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The Harlem Hell Fighters (Needham Roberts / Henry Johnson)
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Red Summer (1919 – 1921 Race Massacres)
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Pensions & GI Bill Denied to Black Soldiers
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The National Housing Act of 1934 (Redlining)
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Suburban Housing Segregation
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The Current State of Hat
For All Audiences
The Movement: 50 Years of Love & Struggle (1965 – Today)
Led by Ron Jones
September 22, 2020
2:00 pm
This is a contemporary Black History one-man show. I play 13 different characters that take you
on a historic journey from the passage of The Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the modern-day Black Lives Matter movement.
Historic Context and Topics Covered:
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and the need for it)
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The Fair Housing Act of 1968 (White Flight) - Dr. Martin Luther King's “Poor Peoples Campaign (Intersectional Advocacy)
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Black Flight & Urban Decay
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African Americans in Popular Culture - African Americans & The Legal System
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Black Lives Matter & The Talk
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The Black Church & Social Change
For All Audiences
Shared Language Conversation:
Led by Dr. Dawn Person
October 16, 2020
October 19, 2020
- 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
As we move as a college to create a foundation for our work with equity, diversity, and inclusion- we must first have a common language and shared understanding.
Please join Coastline College, and Dr. Dawn Person from Cal State Fullerton as we together take the time to set the Foundation of our work.
These workshops will be held twice; however, they are the same workshop. Please sign up prior to the workshop to assist in planning efforts.
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For Students
Racial Identity Dialogues
Start the week of September 7, 2020
Come share, learn, and listen. Coast College District will be hosting student spaces of gathering centered around shared racial identities.
We invite students who identify as Asian American / Native American Pacific Islander (AANAPI), Biracial / Multiracial, African / African-American / Black, Latinx / Hispanic, Native / Indigenous / First Nations, Southwest Asian / Middle Eastern / North African, and White to join us.
For more information contact Leighia Fleming at CCC or IDgroups@cccd.edu
For Students
Green Dot: What’s your Green Dot?
September 10, 2020
2:00 pm
Having conversations around race can be difficult. While we use these spaces to grow, we know that not all
conversations have this impact. Unfortunately, some conversations can lead to misunderstanding, inappropriate comments, or offensive language.
Come learn tools on how you as a student can step in using your green dot to educate and change
the culture.
For Students
Get Out of Your Bubble!
November 10, 2020
2:00 pm
Get Out of Your Bubble is a theatrical game show that helps to orient people to the basics of cultural awareness. It is a fun and engaging way to teach people the foundations of diversity and how we ALL fit into the concept. It is an excellent professional development as well as an educational model and has been utilized by dozens of middle schools, high schools, colleges, and businesses.
Historic Context and Topics Covered:
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Diversity as an All-Inclusive concept (We are all part of it)
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You represent more cultural touchpoints that you may realize
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If you are not in the dominant side of that touchpoint, your story is compromised
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Understanding the lesser-known narratives builds perspective and resilience
For Faculty and Classified Professionals
Supporting Students from Application Through The First Day of Classes
Led by Julianna Barnes, Cuyamaca College & Rob Johnstone
October 7,
2020
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
The Advancing Equity through Guided Pathways series aims to foster critical campus conversations about how to close persistent gaps for historically marginalized students. Join us for a presentation and discussion on this equity guide.
For Faculty and Classified Professionals
Umoja District Faculty Training Opportunity
Led by Dr. Parks
October 23, 2020
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Umoja (A Kiswahili word meaning unity) Community is an academic learning community committed to the academic success, personal growth and self-actualization of African American and other students. The Umoja Community Program seeks to educate the whole student–body, mind and spirit.
In alignment with the Umoja Community Mission, the Coast Community College District Umoja Community is offering an introduction training designed by faculty for faculty to assist in the in develop of culturally relevant curriculum practices/assignments from an Afro-centric perspective. The training will be facilitated by The Bakersfield College Umoja ASTEP program lead by Dr. Paula Parks. The Bakersfield Umoja ASTEP program has been successfully assisting and providing Afro-centric curriculum to Umoja students for six years. Representatives from the areas of Math, English, Library, Science and Communications from Bakersfield College will be present to share their knowledge and experience of creating a learning community firmly connected to understanding the African Diaspora. This is achieved through connecting African American intellectual, cultural, and spiritual gifts and Umoja Community values and practices with required learning outcomes.
In preparation for sessions, faculty are encouraged to visit the Umoja website and review the Umoja Community Program Practices:
Umoja Website: Umojacommunity.org
Umoja Program Practices: https://umojacommunity.org/umoja-practices
Introduction to Umoja Pedagogy
Teaching from an Afro-centric perspective
Teaching strategies for African American/Black students
Examples of teaching within the existing course curriculum
Additional information about Umoja and program practices can be found at:
Umoja Website: Umojacommunity.org
Umoja Program Practices: https://umojacommunity.org/umoja-practices
Contact Lfleming5@coastline.edu for the zoom link
For Faculty and Classified Professionals
Creating Student Connection & Belonging upon Entry
Led by Amelia Parnell, NASPA & Kay McClenney, NCII
November 17, 2020
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
The Advancing Equity through Guided Pathways series aims to foster critical campus conversations about how to close persistent gaps for historically marginalized students. Join us for a presentation and discussion on this equity guide.
Book Clubs
Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
Led by Academic Senate (Fall)
Oct. 6, 2020
Nov. 3, 2020
Dec. 1, 2020
Second half of Academic Senate Meetings at 1:00 pm
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With films like I Am Not Your Negro and the forthcoming If Beale Street Could Talk bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in “The Harlem Ghetto” to a sobering “Journey to Atlanta.”