Curriculum 

• All Participants:

  • Common Equity Language & Equity Literacy 

  • Career Development Support

  • Assessing & Reflecting on our EDI Learning & Development

  • Statewide Initiatives

  • Goal Setting, Mentoring, & Learning Communities

  • Participatory Governance: Institutional Culture, Systems, Structures & Integrated Planning

  • Artificial Intelligence & Software Applications for IRPE Offices

  • How to Partner with Faculty on Student Equity-Minded Student Success

  • Institute Capstone Project

• Newcomers Mastery Path:

  • The Role of an IRPE Office in Today’s Community Colleges

  • Supporting the Accreditation Process

  • Applied Research & Planning in a Community College Setting

  • Equity-Minded Qualitative Research

  • Using Visuals to Effectively Tell the Data Story

• Seasoned Professionals Mastery Path and Veterans Mastery Path:

  • IRPE Change Leadership & Management

  • Leadership & Politics in Accreditation

  • Strategic Enrollment Management & Efficiency

  • Strategic Planning & Evaluation

  • Organizational Development & Action Research

After participating in the IRPE Summer Institute 2024–25 Institute, participants will be able to:

• Facilitate courageous conversations about student equity and equity gaps

  • Examples of possible session topics/session learning outcomes:

    •  For newcomers, seasoned professionals, and veterans:

      •  Self-reflecting and monitoring implicit bias

      •  Responding to microaggressions

      •  Navigating resistance

      • Focusing on organizational responsibility for student success and equity

• Integrate equity-minded approaches to research and planning practices

  • Examples of possible session topics/learning outcomes:

    • For newcomers:

      •  Apply equity-minded inquiry and research approaches

      •  Routinely disaggregate data by race/ethnicity and gender

      •  Question who new programs, processes, systems, structures benefit and who they do not benefit

      •  Describe the historical context for the system and higher education as a whole

    • For newcomers and seasoned professionals:

      • Applying a racial equity and social justice lens to various levels and types of project management

    • For seasoned professionals and veterans:

      • Centering equity in planning

      • Decolonizing research

• Apply effective strategies for advancing data literacy and collaborative leadership focused on racial equity and social justice

  • Examples of possible session topics/learning outcomes:

    • For newcomers and seasoned professionals:

      • Framing conversations with context

      • Assessing campus culture 

      • Centering the student voice and student experience

      • Highlighting employee (EEO) and student demographic data to bring awareness to campus climate, systemic racism

      • Utilizing “calling out” and “calling in” where appropriate to ensure practitioners take institutional responsibility for student success and equitable outcomes

      • Acknowledging and managing racial battle fatigue

      • Effectively engaging resistance

    • For seasoned professionals and veterans:

      • Empowering others to lead/co-lead and serve as agents of change

      • Building and leveraging relationships with other college/district departments (e.g., HR) to help develop more equitable, data-informed hiring processes

• Assess and reflect on one’s own personal and professional development in relation to equity, diversity, and inclusion

  • Examples of possible session topics/learning outcomes for newcomers, seasoned professionals, and veterans:

    • Describe the historical context for the system and higher education as a whole

    • Critically reflect on the culture of the higher education institutions

    • Unlearning biased approaches to research, planning, and higher education as a whole