Introduction
One in every five community college students in the nation attends a California Community College (CCC), and nearly 70% of those students are students of color. Five years ago, the Vision for Success catalyzed a paradigm shift in higher education statewide, challenging us to acknowledge that while well-intentioned, our institutions have historically failed to adequately address and dismantle systemic barriers that produce inequitable outcomes, particularly for students of color. The 2022-25 Student Equity Plan paves the way for colleges across the system to commit to sharpening our focus on dismantling these institutional barriers while intensifying our resolve to achieve racial equity in outcomes for our students of color.
In 2020, the convergence of a global pandemic and a reckoning with racial injustice prompted Chancellor Oakley to make a “Call to Action” to mobilize the system to use our collective positions of privilege, influence, and power, to recenter racial equity.