Faculty Professional Development
Equity is at the center of our teaching practices.
SBCC is highly invested in pedagogical innovation and faculty professional development. Through the support of Title V HSI funding, we have been able to develop, and support, comprehensive training programs for our faculty.
Faculty professional development, under Student-Ready, addresses the unique challenges flex students experience. Faculty are trained in culturally responsive, and sustaining, practices utilizing a cultural wealth framework* to serve the needs of flex and post-traditional students. To be Student-Ready, we commit to being student-centered.
Faculty utilize best practices in working with marginalized student populations to create a culture of flexible student belonging at SBCC. Faculty participate in extensive professional development that includes workshops on cultural relevance and wealth, on-campus institutes, and travel to nationally-recognized conferences. Additionally, the implementation of Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIGs) provide support for faculty to redesign course content for cultural and career relevance.
*Cultural wealth-Recognizing and leveraging students' cultural and personal strength. This framework is based on the work of Dr. Tara Yosso.
Racial Equity Impact Assessment Project (REIAP)
Through collaborative work, this project brings academic department teams together to design equity-informed practices, policies, and learning outcomes, and develop actionable plans to implement culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy. The REIAP will utilize data and research to guide departmental conversations and decisions leading to change that will support the educational success of our disproportionately impacted students and dismantle the systemic and institutional inequities that have historically existed in institutions of higher education. Bridging research and praxis, this project calls faculty to reassess and redesign processes to ensure that equity and inclusion is woven into all aspects of their work.
Learning Outcomes
- Acquire an understanding of how to use data to inform department and course redesign that leads to more equitable student outcomes.
- Establish department goals, timelines, and action items for implementing change.
- Develop equity and anti-racist centered approaches to program review.
- Develop decolonized and culturally responsive curriculum.
- Complete assessment and intentional redesign of departmental policies, practices, and curriculum with an equity and anti-racist centered lens.
Learn more about the REAIP by clicking below.
2021-2022 Faculty Participants
| Name | Your department |
| Lydia Aguirre-Fuentes | Academic Counseling Center |
| Sara Hartley | Academic Counseling Center |
| Vanessa Olguin | Academic Counseling Center |
| Edualdo Pena-Rico | Academic Counseling Center |
| Sergio Perez | Academic Counseling Center |
| Andrew Gil | Academic Counseling Center |
| Antonia Atilano | Academic Counseling Center |
| Wendy Peters | Academic Counseling Center |
| Cosima Celmayster | Academic Counseling Center |
| Ana Garcia | Counseling EOPS |
| Elias Villanueva | Counseling EOPS |
| Ruben Gil | Counseling EOPS |
| Camila Acosta | Counseling EOPS |
| Jennifer Maupin | Biological Sciences |
| Michelle Paddack | Biological Sciences |
| Erin Calkins | Biological Sciences |
| Eric Bullock | Chemistry |
| Juan Carrera Espinoza | Chemistry |
| Sean Kelly | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Geordie Armstrong | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Bill Dinklage | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Alex Wrobel | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Kristen Sneddon | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Stephanie Mendes | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Jared Goldberg | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Shawna Sweeney | HIT/CIM |
| Lynette Williamson | HIT/CIM |
| Shirley Jordan Seay | HIT/CIM |
| Darleen Principe | Journalism |
| Joshua Molina | Journalism |
| Camerin Poulson | Library |
| Sally Chuah | Library |
| Ellen Carey | Library |
| Corrie Bott | Library |
| Laurel Johnston | Psychology |
| Gina Bell | Psychology |
| George Ayoub | Psychology |
| Danya Wahlberg | School of Modern Languages |
| Frangina Spandau | School of Modern Languages |
| Margarita Martin del Campo | School of Modern Languages |
| Laura Gardinali | School of Modern Languages |
| Francisco Rodriguez | School of Modern Languages |
| Juan Casillas | School of Modern Languages |
| Lacey Peters | Student Health and Wellness |
| Alyson Bostwick | Student Health and Wellness |
2020-2021 Faculty Participants
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Crossroads Anti-racism Training
We recognize that traditional models of diversity training often do not get to the heart of the structural basis of racism. In order to make the cultural shifts necessary to address the long history of structural racism in our society and in our educational systems, we must ask our colleagues to dig deep and do the hard work of facing our personal and institutional inequities.
Workshop Description: Understanding and Analyzing Systemic Racism
Participants will build a common definition of racism and explore the historic development of institutional racism in the US. They will examine ongoing realities of racism including the identity-shaping power racism has on People of Color and White people; explore racism’s individual, institutional and cultural manifestations; and consider the link between racism and other forms of oppression. A strategic methodology to dismantle racism will be introduced, focusing specifically on applying principles of organizing and social/cultural change.
To learn more about other SBCC faculty development programs, please visit the Faculty Resource Center.
