Acknowledging and celebrating different communities, identities, and perspectives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
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:
Events that provide space to spark dialogue about sensitive issues at Coastline College.
Information and events that recognize different communities and groups that tend to be marginalized.
It is important to us here at Coastline that the college remains a safe environment to discuss and dialogue about issues that concern our students, staff, and faculty. All should feel welcome to speak up and ask for support where its needed.