Acknowledging and celebrating different communities, identities, and perspectives.
Diversity and Inclusion
Mandate: To acknowledge and celebrate different communities, identities, and perspectives that promote diversity at Coastline College. To bring awareness to racial, socioeconomic, and other forms of social injustices. To ensure that Coastline College is a safe environment to discuss and dialogue about issues that concern our students, staff, and faculty.
Why Diversity Matters
Taking a cue from Southern California itself, Coastline thrives when students of all types are given the opportunity to succeed. That means that Coastline's campuses are welcoming atmospheres no matter one's race, gender, religion, background, orientation, physical abilities, etc. As an institution of higher learning, we know that good ideas can come from anywhere. Diversity doesn't just make us more open, it makes us better.
RAMPARTS & RESTORATION
Virtual Art Exhibition Feb. 1 - 28, 2021
Coastline's first art exhibition of 2021 is called Ramparts & Restoration, highlighting a multitude of artworks and artists of color who practice an active awareness of equity and diversity through art.
Celebrating Diversity and Black History Month
Coastline's campuses are welcoming atmospheres no matter one's race, gender, religion, background, orientation, physical abilities, etc. As an institution of higher learning, we know that good ideas can come from anywhere. Diversity doesn't just make us more open, it makes us better.
Diversity and Inclusion Work Group
Coastline's Diversity and Inclusion Work Group encourages the development and implementation of practices that create supportive environments. This allows students, faculty, and staff to embrace their responsibilities as local and global citizens.
The group meets on the first Monday of the month (September - December, February - May) from 3pm - 5pm via Zoom led by Rene Gutierrez.
Upcoming Events
Diversity Workgroup Dialogues
- COVID-19: Looking Back
- Date: March 15, 2021
- Time: 1:00pm (PST)
- Location: Online via Zoom - RSVP for COVID-19: Looking Back
- Political Climate w/ New US President
- Date: April 12, 2021
- Time: 1:00pm (PST)
- Location: Online via Zoom - RSVP for Climate w/ New US President
GWC Webinars
- Exploring Implicit and Explicit Bias
- Date: January 27, 2021
- Time: 10 - 11:30am (PST)
- Location: Online - Register for Exploring Implicit and Explicit Bias
- Addressing Microaggressions
- February 24, 2021.
- Time: 10 - 11:30am (PST)
- Location: Online - Register for Addressing Microaggressions
- Overcoming Misinterpretations in Cross-Cultural Communication
- March 24, 2021
- Time: 10 - 11:30am (PST)
- Location: Online - Register for Overcoming Misinterpretations
Outside Events
OC Human Relations invites you to join guest speaker Dr. L Song Richardson, Dean & Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Dr. Richardson will talk about how our unconscious mental processes can influence decision-making & judgement.
Discuss the impact of the pandemic on sexual and relationship violence, how we can transform our communities into inclusive spaces, and what actions we can take to focus on the individual and community healing with Berkeley and Tarana Burke.
Coastline #1 for Diversity
Coastline College Ranked #1 in CA for Diversity
Coastline College serves 24,886 students (7% of students are full-time). It is one of 17 community colleges within Orange County, CA. The Community College Review ranks it as #1 in California.
Diversity Score
Coastline's Diversity Score is 0.83 - well above California's score of 0.73 and the national average of 0.51 in community colleges. Minority enrollment at Coastline is 91% of the student body (majority Hispanic and Asian).
Workgroup Initiatives
Insurrection at the Capitol Dialogue
On January 15, 2021 the Diversity Workgroup hosted the Insurrection at the Capitol Dialogue. We discussed how we felt about the event, as discussed in the CORA Learning Webinar. That provided a historical context as well as provided recommendations for Higher Education. If you're interested in more information, CORA learning has additional resources:
- Access to the Voting Video shown by Lasana Hotep
- Access to Statements on Insurrection presented by Frank Harris III (Statement 1 - Rutgers) (Statement 2 - Lafayette)
- Additional Resources on Qanon's hold in some evangelical communities (NPR Story) (New York Times)
Brown Bag Series
Events that provide space to spark dialogue about sensitive issues at Coastline College.
2019-2020 Topics
- Homelessness and Food Insecurity
- Uncomfortable Holiday Conversations
- Discomfort with hearing or speaking other languages
- White Guide: Another Perspective
- Unearned Privileges
Awareness Month Recognition
Information and events that recognize different communities and groups that tend to be marginalized.
Spring Awareness Months
- MLK Day | January 15th
- Black History | Febuary
- Women's History | March
- Deaf History | March 15th - April 15th
- Autism Awareness | April
- Asian and Pacific American Heritage | May
Diversity Trainings
Summer 2020
- June 29, 2020 - Asian Solidarity With Black Lives: Dismantling Racial Capitalism
- June 30, 2020 - The Elephant We Don't See: A Diversity Dialogue (1st in 3-part series)
- July 8, 2020 - More Than an Ally
- July 20, 2020 - Ibram Kendi on How to be an Anti-Racist
- July 16, 2020 - Black Minds Matter: Addressing the Parallels Between the Policing of Black Lives and Schooling of Black Minds (1st in 5-part series)