Toni Morrison said, “It’s easy, and it’s seductive, to assume that data is really knowledge. Or that information is, indeed, wisdom. Or that knowledge can exist without data. And how easy, and how effortlessly, one can parade and disguise itself as another.” Listen.
Transfer students are an incredible asset to California's institutions of higher education. Check out this report that presents findings from a project I worked on last year that highlights past and existing intersegmental transfer partnership efforts. #HigherEd
Remarkable! I wish a program existed in my early education. Lost language is a inequitable reality— cheers to the next generation of bilingual Viet learners 🙌🏼
“District launches the 1st preschool-to-high school Vietnamese-English bilingual pathway”
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I continue to be amazed at the number of marginalized people who think representation is enough when they obtain titles.
When you get that seat, what are you doing to stop harm? What are you doing to ensure others who come behind you are free to share their views too?
Inspirational day in community at the @CSU_SuccessNet LGBTQIA2S+ Symposium!!! Action-oriented dialogues are 🔑 as we imagine and collaborate on ideas to work towards a CSU where LGBTQIA2S+ students can thrive.
The measure of our economy should be things like:
-can people afford housing on a 40hr work week at minimum wage?
-can people afford to work and save money?
-can those entering the workforce now reasonably retire when they’re older?
Instead of showing me your diversity statement, show me your hiring data, your discrimination claim stats, your salary tables, your retention numbers, your diversity policies, and your leaders’ public actions against racism. End performative allyship.
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Message from a liberation psychologist:
Check your heart, words, and behaviors so you don’t take on the very characteristics you’re seeking to dismantle.
Liberation is calling you.
Don’t let jealousy, insecurity, frustration, ego direct your path.
Keeping your personal life private and not oversharing is a superpower. Saying no without explaining yourself is a superpower. Raising your emotional intelligence so no one can game you is a superpower. Accepting your flaws so no one can use them against you is a superpower.
🎉 Happy National #AANAPISIWeek! 🎉
Happy “sweet” 16 years since the signing of the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution designation on September 27, 2007.
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The minimum wage was established at $0.25 an hour in 1938.
85 years later and its only gone up $7.
Wages would be over $20 an hour if it kept pace with productivity.
The sudden deaths this week of two Black women administrators has alarmed and saddened us all. It concerns me, though, that we habitually reduce Black women’s to their work as administrators. If these women are like most Black women I know, they are also carrying other heavy 1/
Our team is honored to attend this this year's @CalCommColleges DEIA in Action Institute in San Diego! We are serving as external evaluators for the event with our @CSU_SuccessNet also attending for cross-segment learning. #DEIAinAction#InclusiveCulture