Diversity under the spotlight Staff discusses hiring more Black faculty

BY SHANDANI JACKSON

The California Community Colleges (CCC) held a series of webinars for Black Student Success Week, which focused on amplifying the voices of Black students and faculty.

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Many speakers during the webinar on Friday discussed why there needed to be racially conscious hiring for Black faculty so that there are curriculums being created with Black students in mind.

Diablo Valley College Umoja Program Coordinator and Professor Eric Handy and San Diego City College Counseling Transfer Center Director Abdimalik Buul hosted the webinar directing questions to faculty.

LaToya Parker spoke on what it means to hire and understand diversity.

“First and foremost for diversity purposes, but also work for racial imbalances,” Parker said. “We want to begin to think about how we are going to move to design a fair outcome as it pertains to the elimination of what we call barriers or opportunities as we create programs specifically for African American and Black students.”

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