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Equity means Mt. SAC provides every student with an experience that gives them the conditions to develop their full academic and social potential.

Equity-minded planning seeks to eliminate institutional policies, embedded practices, and systemic barriers that have enabled inequity to exist and persist at Mt. SAC.

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Healing-centered planning recognizes the assets of students from disproportionately impacted groups and prioritizes their success in institutional goal-setting and decision-making at Mt. SAC.

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What is Mt. SAC 2035?

Mt. SAC 2035 will be our shared strategic blueprint, driving efforts to serve our students for the next ten years.

Mt. SAC 2035 will be developed through an equity-minded, healing-centered planning process crafted through extensive internal and external collaboration, centering the student experience.

Mt. SAC 2035 will serve as the foundation for integrated planning processes and cycles of continuous quality improvement. Crafted through a DEISA+ and healing-centered lens, it leads to the accomplishment of the Mt. SAC vision, mission, and values through long-term goals and shared measures of success. 

Equity-Minded Healing-Centered Planning Process

 

  • Students providing input at outside building 40
  • Listening to feedback from students
  • Gathering feedback from students stretching into the evening.
  • Group planning sessions
  • Interpreting feedback
  • Gathering feedback from students
  • Gathering Feedback

Where does “Mt. SAC 2035” belong within

Institutional Planning at Mt. SAC ?

 

Vision
  • The College aspiration for the future
Mission
  • The College purpose
Core Values
  • Enduring beliefs and principles that individuals of the College hold in common and endeavor to put into action
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  • The foundation of integrated planning. Gives direction to accomplish the Mission and means to assess progress toward that goal
Focused Plans
  • Guide specialized work of the College in alignment with Mt. SAC 2035
Institution-Set Standard
  • Elements of student achievement used to evaluate how well the College is fulfilling the Mission​
Program Review
  • Planning process used to assess unit progress in support of student learning and the mission​

 

Prepare

Mt. SAC 2035 Task Force

President’s Advisory Committee (PAC) convened a Task Force in July 2024 to guide and support the research, review, and development of Mt. SAC 2035.

 

Students, we want to hear from you!
What makes you feel comfortable, supported, and successful at Mt. SAC?

Mt. SAC 2035 | Student Feedback Form
Submission open through Dec. 15, 2024

Looking for Student Feedback

Listen

Listening Sessions

  • Students (October 2024)
  • Faculty (November 13-22, 2024)
  • Classified (November 13-22, 2024)
  • Managers (coming December 2024)
  • Community Partners (coming January 2024)

Conditions for Success Student Survey (November 18 - December 5)

When you meet students, be curious and open minded. I work in mental health, and I had to rework my approach to support our deaf and hard of hearing students. I had to work visually and speak less. I had to think critically about my framework, and I changed how I communicated. When you listen and communicate with students, you must be creative and think out-of-the-box.

— Mental health clinician

  • The campus at Mt. SAC is intimidating. It's so big. It feels like a four-year institution. For these reasons it's important to connect with students when they are navigating the college. Really understand what it means for them to not feel intimidated, for it not to feel like they are constantly zigging and zagging and being ping ponged around.

    — Executive admin

    While the college has many great services, we struggle to have a holistic understanding of those offerings. As you begin the process, work to create cross campus collaboration, have conversations that integrate groups that are commonly siloed. Our workloads make it hard to build that holistic understanding. We are overloaded with emails. There is a unique opportunity here. Use it.

    — Executive admin
     

  • Consider the difference between fitting in and belonging. While deaf and hard of hearing students might feel included, that is not the same as them having a voice and feeling like they belong. They have different voices. Reach out in ways so they participate. Find ways to invite their participation. We must incorporate DHH students into the [process].

    — DHH faculty

    Mt. SAC 2035 must reach vocational students, like those who come to Mt. SAC to get an agricultural license and get out. Many of our students do not attend full-time. They are taking noncredit classes, working, supporting a family, and are single parents. Offer engagements at untraditional times that work for them, like evenings and nights. Provide childcare.

    — CTE faculty

  • I strongly recommend training your team on how to listen—not just hearing but listening authentically to what students are telling you. Many [practitioners] do not know how to listen, so the process runs in circles.

    — Student

    Attending classes and pursuing a noncredit program is difficult because I work part time to support my family. My [parent] has a disability, and I work in a restaurant the same days that my program is offered. I'm only able to participate when I'm not working, not in class or in my program. Understand what students are dealing with and adapt your outreach to suit their needs.

    — Student

Mt. SAC student and community engagement [needs work]. While Mt. SAC is good at reaching business leaders and the labor union, they must do better at going out into the community and sharing the offerings that the grassroots community cares about, including working people and lower income families. There is a history of secret committees where students are included only after the big decisions have been made. When students are included, there are too few of them to authentically represent the student voice. And even when the decisions are good ones, they don't have the same buy in because they were made unilaterally. Or they are made without saying the why. There is a history of not asking for student and community input. If you want this to be a successful process, then give students and community partners decision making power.

— Board member

 

Return to Planning Process
Uncover

History and Data Matter

Mt. SAC will analyze qualitative and quantitative data from a racial and demographic perspective to actively confront inequities present in student experiences and outcomes, policies, and practices.

 

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Design

Joint Planning Summits

  • October 11, 2024 Joint Planning Summit (Find in Presentations to Constituents)
  • March 14, 2025

 

Return to Planning Process
Decide

Project Outcome: PLANNING FRAMEWORK

EQUITY BY DESIGN

Institutional Goals
Facilities Guiding Principles
 
Decision-Making Rubric
for Facilities Improvements
 
 
Return to Planning Process 

 

 

 

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