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Engaging Excellence in Equity Fellows

Equity Fellows

Engaging Excellence in Equity Fellows

Identifying Culturally Responsive Practices,
Furthering Support-building Evidence

The Office of Community College Research and Leadership utilized U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) data and National Center for Educational Statistics Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data to identify 100 postsecondary institutions that enrolled and supported associate-degree completion for one or more minoritized racial subgroups of students at the highest national rates in 2015. The purpose of this identification was to invite a subgroup of these institutions to nominate up to two individuals to be Engaging Excellence in Equity Fellows. These fellows participated in a series of three convenings designed to identify culturally responsive practices and further support-building evidence and capacity for this work.

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Blogs by Equity Fellows

One component of OCCRL’s Equity Conscious Community College Pathways project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the Engaging Excellence in Equity Fellowship. The inaugural cohort of fellows is comprised of 18 community college administrators, faculty, and staff from across the country who were identified by their campus leaders as integral to their institutions’ success in serving and supporting underserved racially minoritized students. To highlight and share the robust knowledge, experience, expertise, and ideas of this group of equity exemplars, OCCRL is featuring a special Voices and Viewpoints series highlighting posts written by these fellows. Their biweekly blog posts cover a range of topics and ideas selected by the fellows that reflect challenges they face in their roles and their experiences as fellows, as well as projects and programs they have developed and implemented to support underserved racially minoritized students, among other topic. Ultimately, while these blog posts represent a variety of perspectives on issues important to the Engaging Excellence in Equity Fellows and the work they do, they are connected by their particular focus on supporting racially minoritized students on community college campuses in an equity-conscious manner.