Roll Up Your Sleeves for DEI! Building an Equitable Learning Environment in Community and Technical Colleges

After a brief presentation describing the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at Bergen Community College, seminar participants identify challenges to equitable practices and develop solutions that show promise for individual classrooms and the college as a whole. Groups will be formed according to areas of interest (i.e., instruction, advising, student services, etc.) and each group will develop and present an action plan. Learn what is being done in other institutions to promote DEI, expand your understanding of possible solutions to identified challenges to equity in education, and leave with a proposed action plan for your institution.

Learning Objectives

• Learn what is being done in other institutions regarding DEI.
• Expand understanding of possible solutions to identified challenges to equity in education.
• Create proposed action plans for institutions in multiple arenas of student contact.

Sara Mastellone, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Bergen Community College

Only registered conference participants can purchase a ticket to attend a preconference seminar. All preconference seminars start at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and run concurrently.