Executive Summary

Executive Summary

Introduction

Every student is important at San Jose City College. The Mission of San Jose City College establishes the groundwork for programs and services provided to students. It states, “The mission of San Jose City College is to effect social justice by providing open and equitable access to quality education and programs that both challenge and prepare individuals for successful careers and active participation in a diverse, global society.” Reaching out and serving traditionally underrepresented college students has been the foundation of San Jose City College’s Mission since its beginnings. The Mission Statement is the basis for the guidelines which the college provides for all student services to diverse populations, including transfer, occupational and basic skills programs.

The Equity Plan is created to further the college’s mission by focusing on the needs of student groups that have been historically underserved. The Equity Planning process includes collecting and analyzing student success data disaggregated by ethnicity, gender and disability, foster youth status, veteran status and low income status to pin point areas of strength and need. These data are then used to design a work plan that focuses on areas of need.

Target Groups

We have conducted data analyses using the “Proportionality Method” as set forth in the Equity Plan Instructions. We have also reviewed and included other prescribed methodologies such as the “Percentage Point Gap” methodology included in the guidelines. The Student Equity Committee (identified equity gaps in more than one measure among students who identify as African American/Black, Latino, foster youth and veterans, while the team identified an equity gap in one measure among students who are men, Filipino and students with a documented disability. The Student Equity Committee identified that the “Transfer” measure had more equity gaps than any other measure. The chart below summarizes these findings:

Goals/Outcomes

Our overarching goal is to increase rates of student success in each area by 5% within 3 years for each underserved group listed. A list of each specific goal broken down by area of need is listed below:

1. To establish the San Jose College Guardian Program and ALMASS(Advocacy, Leadership for Migrant Access and Services) Dream Program Center to expand the number of Foster Youth and AB 540 students under the EOPS umbrella.

2. To increase transfer rates for Black or African American students at SJCC by

establishing and implementing a plan for students to have successful course completion and access to transfer institutions.

3. To increase the number of admitted Asian, white, and multi-racial students identified as underrepresented with respect to the surrounding community.

4. To develop marketing material geared toward the Asian community and traditional college going students identified as underrepresented with respect to the surrounding community.

5. To increase access by 5% within the first three years of this plan for students who identify as foster youth and students who identify as veterans.

6. To improve the completion, transfer, and degree rate for students with learning disabilities by providing them with interpretive, diagnostic tests, making appropriate educational recommendations and academic accommodations in the classroom for DSPS students.

7. To provide health services to more students and to enable them to attend class with convenient access to health services. Access to more health services and knowledge of health services is essential to positive student outcomes.

Goals

· To establish the San Jose Guardian Program and ALMASS Dream Program Center to expand the number of Foster Youth and AB 540 students under the EOPS umbrella.

· To implement a pre-summer bridge program that helps students who place in basic skills

Math and English successfully transition to San Jose City College.

· To plan and develop success strategies for math students using Student Equity Data.

· To plan and develop success strategies for remedial English.

· To plan and develop success strategies for remedial ESL.

· To provide academic counseling to DSPS resulting in improving the completion, transfer and degree rate for students with disabilities.

· To provide comprehensive counseling services to Career Technical Students pursuing a certificate or Associate of Arts or Sciences degree.

· To provide college access and resources to the San Jose Unified School District high school students who reflect our service area population that consist of at-risk minority males.

· To increase hours for the Foster Youth Program Coordinator to oversee development and administration of improved Foster Youth programs and services.

· To implement a pre-summer bridge program that helps students who place in basic skills math and English successfully transfer to San Jose City College.

· Increase promotion of health services for the student health clinic through the SJCC

website, radio, newspaper and email blasts.

· Provide access to mandated screening and vaccines for Health Care Professions and targeted populations.

Each goal listed above has a work plan linked to it. That work plan includes activities, and each of these activity is associated with outcomes, target dates for completion, and responsible parties.

Activities

Once these gaps were identified and goals were written, the Task Force explored existing programs and services that served these groups as well as those activities that are currently under development through the Student Success and Support Programs, Basic Skills Initiative,

and Achieving the Dream initiatives. Next, the group completed a gap analysis, identifying services that were not currently offered or under development. Using the gap analysis as a guide, additional activities were then added to the Equity Plan.

When the review process was completed, San Jose City College thoroughly evaluated all comments, responses, and general observations. A number of these concepts were merged together in the college’s new Student Equity Plan:

Many of the activities strengthen or improve activities that already exist on campus or are currently under development. These activities demonstrate an alignment of the Equity plan with other college plans. For example, the team aligned the Equity Plan activities with several others that are already underway through the Basic Skills Initiative and the Achieving the Dream initiative. Examples of this alignment include strengthening math and English pathways to be more accessible to underserved student groups, developing a culturally-responsive teaching and learning professional development series and strengthening math and English pathways so that they are more accessible to underserved student groups.

Resources

A budget has been prepared by the committee. Gaps: The basic skills completion gap and the transfer gap. More resources are dedicated to closing the course completion gap than the other gaps. This is due to the fact that the course completion gap affects the largest number of students.

Although this plan shows an estimation of how the college will distribute Equity resources, the Student Equity Plan Committee will continue to work through the 2016 spring semester to create a more comprehensive, integrated and nuanced spending plan. Key college stakeholders who are interested in leading these activities will complete funding requests in which detailed spending plans will be outlined and integration to other college plans will be clearly demonstrated.

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Contact Person/Student Equity Coordinator: Roland Montemayor,

Interim Vice President, Student Services

2100 Moorpark Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128 (408) 288-3183