Planning as strategy for improving Black and Latinx student equity: Lessons from nine California community colleges
Planning as strategy for improving Black and Latinx student equity: Lessons from nine California community colleges
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规划作为改善黑人和拉丁裔学生公平的战略：九所加州社区大学的经验教训
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2018
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Marlon Fernandez Castro
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Eric R. Felix;Marlon Fernandez Castro
2014年，加州政策制定者通过了学生公平计划(SEP)政策，以解决社区大学系统中的差距。这项改革努力正式确定了一项校园范围的规划工作，要求各机构检查其数据中的差异，制定目标和战略，以缓解已确定的不平等，并使用新的财政资源来实现其计划。近年来，制定国家一级的高等教育政策的情况有所增加，但很少有人把重点放在公平的概念上，或明确将种族和族裔群体列为政策受益者。这项研究调查了该州最大的社区大学区的九个学生公平计划。借助批判性政策分析，我们将重点放在了解规划过程是否以及如何被用来解决黑人和拉丁裔学生面临的不平等问题。基于我们的分析，我们发现了几个关于计划如何识别和解决黑人和拉丁裔学生面临的障碍的主题。在检查了178项股票活动后，我们发现只有28项有希望的活动明确地以黑人和拉丁裔学生为目标，采用与文化相关的、数据驱动的、基于证据的策略。这些发现对寻求发展改革努力和机构的政策制定者具有令人信服的影响，这些机构利用政策来解决黑人和拉丁裔学生面临的当前和历史上的不平等问题。在教育政策中使用改善计划是司空见惯的，但我们发现有必要进行更多的培训和能力建设努力，以利用规划作为解决社区大学种族不平等的机会。
In 2014, California policymakers passed the Student Equity Plans (SEP) policy to address disparities in the community college system. The reform effort formalized a campus-wide planning effort that required institutions to examine their data for disparities, develop goals and strategies to mitigate identified inequities, and use new fiscal resources to realize their plans. In recent years, there has been an increase in the enactment of state-level higher education policies, but few, if any, have focused on the notion of equity or explicitly named racial and ethnic groups as policy beneficiaries. This study examines nine student equity plans in the state’s largest community college district. Drawing upon critical policy analysis, we place a focus on understanding if, and how, the planning process was used to address inequities facing Black and Latinx students. Based on our analysis we found several themes on how plans identified and address barriers facing Black and Latinx students. After examining 178 equity activities, we found only 28 promising activities that explicitly targeted Black and Latinx students with culturally relevant, data-driven, evidence-based strategies. These findings have compelling implications for policymakers seeking to develop reform efforts and institutions using policy to address current and historic inequities faced by Black and Latinx students. The use of planning for improvement is commonplace in educational policy, but we find that more training and capacity-building efforts are necessary to use planning as an opportunity to address racial inequity in community college.