COMMUNITY COLLEGE ACCESS AND EQUITY INITIATIVE

California Tomorrow’s Community College Access & Equity Initiative. facilitates equity-driven shifts in thinking, planning and acting and promotes institutional change so that community colleges better support the most vulnerable students in succeeding.

California Tomorrow believes that a strong community college system is integral to a thriving, multicultural, and prosperous state and nation. Throughout the state and country, community colleges serve as a bridge to opportunity, re-engaging under-educated young adults, working adults, moving students of color and immigrants through the pipeline to Bachelor's degrees, and providing access to workforce opportunities for low-income communities. Our Community College Access and Equity Initiative has two prongs — Capacity Building and Education and Advocacy. In instituting our work in these two areas, we:

• Provide research and use data to increase awareness of the challenges and needs of the most vulnerable students among practitioners and college and system leaders and to promote community college best practices;
• Use the voices and stories of students so that students are included in shaping campus and statewide priorities, opportunities, and resources; and,
• Build community college capacity by hosting cross-campus Equity Institutes and providing technical assistance, training, and tools so that campus leaders develop a more comprehensive and sustainable plan for strengthening and expanding their access, equity, and diversity strategies.

Contact:
Anne Price
Community College Access and Equity Program Director
(510) 496-0220, ext. 311
annep @ californiatomorrow.org