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We are.
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We are the painters of our world.
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We are, we are, creators
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Welcome to another special edition
of the Educate Elevate Podcast.
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I'm your host, Danny Morrison.
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In our last episode,
we began a powerful conversation
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about the impact of California
Senate Bill 1348
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on black and African-American college
students.
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This new legislation
officially allows qualified California
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universities to be recognized
as a black serving institution.
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If you missed part one of this discussion,
you might be thinking what exactly
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is a black serving institution
and why does this matter to me?
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Let me tell you, this is huge.
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This law brings
accountability and clear actionable steps
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to guarantee that black students aren't
just getting accepted into college,
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but are thriving and excelling
while they are there.
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With more black faculty programs
specifically tailored to black students
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and a determined focus on their success,
this designation gives our students
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renewed hope and confidence
that through higher education,
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they really can achieve their dreams.
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We covered a lot of ground last time,
but we have so much more to discuss.
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Guiding today's discussion
once again is Dr.
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Abdul-Malik Buul.
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Dr. Buul We're really looking forward
to continuing
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this important conversation,
so I'll let you dive right in.
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Thank you, Danny.
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I'm excited as well about picking up
where we left off.
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Before we begin,
I'd like to brief introduce
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our very special panel members
to any new viewers.
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Dr. Luke Wood, president of California
State University, Sacramento,
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and the youngest permanent president
for a four year public college
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or university in the nation
who was also appointed by the California
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State Senate to serve on the California
Racial Equity Commission.
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Dr. Tammeil Gilkerson,
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chancellor of the Peralta Community College
District in the Bay Area.
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She's also serving as a college president,
VP of Academic Affairs
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and Student Affairs, and was the first
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
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and Innovation officer for the Contra
Costa Community College District.
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Pamela Haynes, a member of the California
Community College's Board of Governors.
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She has more than 20 years of experience
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guiding and serving
higher education institutions.
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And finally, we have Joia Miller, Joia’s
a biology student at Mt.
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San Jacinto College,
who plans on transferring to a four university
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to double major
in biochemistry and neurology.
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She's also a proud Army
veteran, wife and mother.
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Thank you all for being here once again.
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Let's dive right back in.
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So the designation of a BSI - “black students
institution”, has truly transformed
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what it means to be a black student institution,
to be a black student on these campuses.
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How has that changed the trajectory
of your educational experience,
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or how will that change
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the trajectory for future black students
to enroll in our colleges?
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So when I was a kid speaking for myself
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and my siblings,
we watched the movie Drumline and
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Drumline made me want to be a dance girl
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so much and I became one
and I was so good at it.
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So good
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that when I went to Southern University,
the only reason I wasn’t a dance girl,
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is because I slept through the audition,
which is my fault.
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but having that opportunity
to live that lifestyle
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that we see in the movies,
it gives us so much credit and hope
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and it transforms
the way that we think about education.
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It's not it doesn't feel like a job.
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It feels like a home.
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It feels like a family.
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It feels like the place to be.
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It feels like
you're going to a block party
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and you're getting something out of it.
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And I think that that means so much
to so many people
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and to not have any HBCU’s
that sit in California.
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But to have that experience means so much.
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This fictional
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depiction becoming a reality exactly
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where they're geographically bound
to, like, move halfway across the country.
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Dr. Wood, can you talk to us about that?
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Yeah, I mean, I think when we talk about
most black students in education,
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they have three general experiences
that we call a D3 effect, right?
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They experience distrust
where they're seen to be troublemakers or
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to have some sort of mal-intent is like,
like criminalized version of what happens.
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You see in in K-12
the suspensions and expulsions.
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You see it in higher education
with students being accused
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of cheating on tests.
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The second piece of that is disdain,
where we use the they statements.
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You know, they're lazy, they don't care.
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They're not really here for school.
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They're only here for the financial aid.
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And then the third one is disregard,
where we assume that they are
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academically inferior.
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They don't have the intelligence
to do the work.
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And so many of our black students
have been treated
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with distrust and staying in disregard.
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And we want them to be environments where
they're can experience hope and dignity.
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And the challenge with that
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is that if you think about outcomes
and what most the outcomes
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look like across most the institutions
in California, for black students,
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we know that the success rates are lower
than those who don't experience success.
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So that means that more students know
somebody who didn't succeed
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than someone who did.
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They know more students
who had a bad experience in the classroom
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than someone who had a good experience.
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They know more people who dropped out
than those who graduated.
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And we don't think from our perspective
that that is a function of the students,
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their families or their communities,
but of institutions and educators
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that have not been prepared to effectively
and adequately serve them.
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And so the BSI designation provides
a framework and impetus for institutions
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to transition
to an environment of hope and dignity
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so that our students can experience
what they deserve, which is the very best.
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And, Dr. Gilkerson. Dr..
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we'll talk about three D’s.
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How do you see yourself
using your three P’s?
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I mean, give you three
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P’s - your power, your personality,
your privilege are uppercase or lowercase
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to create hope
for these black serving institutions.
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So when I came on as chancellor
of the Peralta Community College District,
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I coined passion, purpose
and possibilities.
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And that's really
what I believe is happening at Laney
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College in Merritt College in Berkeley
City called College of Alameda.
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Right. Like, it is this thing,
This is your legacy.
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It's your birthright, right?
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We have robbed you of this in so many ways
and told you stories
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that you're not good enough
or these kind of things.
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And everybody has done it.
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You see it on the news media,
you see it in, right, the justice system
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or the injustice system.
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We see it in
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all these spaces and we're trying to say,
come on, come on and take it.
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Take what's yours.
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Raise your hand. Fight for liberation.
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Get what you want for your family
and the generation that comes after you.
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That's what I'm here for.
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This is the piece is to hold out the hand
and say, grab it and come.
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And I don't care
if you don't know what you want to do.
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That's the beauty of the California
community colleges.
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You don't have to know what you want.
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You could change your mind ten times.
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We want you to come and say,
I raise my hand.
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I say, a student comes to the parking lot.
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Yes, right. Let's get him through
the door.
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Let's get into that next kind of thing.
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And so I think that's really what
we're trying to say, is there's this hope
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and that, institutions
that say, we want the designation.
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They are applying for designation
to say that this is what they want.
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They want you to get your birthright.
They want you to come
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and live your legacy.
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And we know you want connection.
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That's what every human wants, right?
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They want dignity and worth
and feeling valued.
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And that's what we want to create
in these spaces for students to be able
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to actualize themselves
and, you know, just find, you know,
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the genuine abundance and greatness
that's already within them.
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Right. Just to figure it out,
I'm still figuring it out.
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So, you know, come on and join me.
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Trustee Haynes,
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Dr. Gilkerson mentioned the term legacy.
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It's a full circle moment
as you being part of the integration
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period
of the California system as a student.
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And then now coming to see
a black serving institution in the state.
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It's true.
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Can you talk to us about
just the hope and what that would mean?
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So as many folks
know, I came out of California community
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colleges at Santa Monica
College was a very different time,
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and I did not know what my path was going
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to be relative
to being engaged in California
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community colleges, as I have been over
the last several years.
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It's transformative.
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And I feel like that student
who starts out
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not quite knowing what their path is
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and recognizing that BSI
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is a positive transformation,
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not a negative one
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changes the whole trajectory of success.
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And this may sound way too big,
but I don't think it is.
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We are moving into a designation that
that has such power here in California.
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I've just come off of a third trip
to Ghana,
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and what I have recognized
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all along this journey is our 400 years
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here in this country
where we're continuing to have to
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try to transform.
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And this is a wonderful step
in a really positive way
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to bring something
that's important to our students.
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Absolutely.
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One thing I'd love for us to tackle
if possible
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is you mentioned the sense of belonging
from the students perspective,
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but is also recruiting, retaining folks
committed
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to serving black students, classify
professors, administrators, faculty.
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So if we can kind of tee that up,
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you know, creating a sense
of belonging for them, too, because then
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the whole educational ecosystem
becomes a BSI at that point.
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So I have a quick story that I'll tell.
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So when I was the president of Laney
College, my first commencement ceremony,
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we had a valedictorian
and she had been gone
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through a very difficult life,
a life of drug addiction.
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Being justice
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impacted, having many, many things,
and at some point multiple children.
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And it decided at one point
to get healthy and get well
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and to decide
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that then she was going to move out
and come and actually go back to school
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and found a place at Laney College
that really said supported her.
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So faculty, counselors, staff
who wrapped around their arms and said,
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what do you want to do?
Where do you want to go?
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And she ended up years later,
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right, graduating as the valedictorian,
standing on stage to me,
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giving a speech, talking about Langston
Hughes’, right,
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seminal poem
and really calling it out and galvanizing.
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My first year back as chancellor,
the district at Laney College,
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this graduation, I'm standing on stage
and that year I actually give what,
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graduation to her son
who was incarcerated at the time
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that she gave her valedictorian speech
was in his cell, actually
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watching it on a burner phone,
watched his mother
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give the valedictorian speech and said,
I'm going to come out.
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I'm going to change my life.
I'm going to do.
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He graduated this last year
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and is transferring out to a historically
black college university.
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So it is this there is power in the work
when you have people who care about
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no matter how you come,
come take the step, walk through the door.
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I think what a BSI designation says is
we're trying to work with intentionality.
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This is your place. We see you right.
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And the opportunity
that it has for generations.
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I mean, what a privilege.
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You know that students are coming to us.
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I love what you said so much.
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My favorite poem is actually
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From Mother to Son by Langston Hughes.
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It has inspired me to continue
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even after that long, halted
period of my life.
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Also something,
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we're only going to praise
our Black community in February.
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Why wouldn't we do it year round?
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Why wouldn't
we have those projects in the classroom?
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Why wouldn't we analyze
a Langston Hughes or a Maya Angelou
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or I can't even think of what exactly
celebrate them.
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Yes. Yes, absolutely.
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Black Excellence 365 Absolutely.
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I think that that's something
that's so important that we need
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to bring into the college system,
not just here in California, but
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worldwide.
It’s critical to the work.
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And I think that's what
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hopefully the black serving institutions
will provide is not just, you know,
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the representation racial,
but the curriculum and the pedagogy
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and the andragogy and the consciousness
and the resources
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and also in the self efficacy and self
esteem of the student to say, hey,
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I understand that a lot of my historical
figures are revolutionary
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figures, but also part of evolution,
not just revolution.
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We have advanced society,
we have scientists and inventors
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and contributors
that have moved this goal forward.
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And so to have that space of ingenuity,
innovation is going to be a game changer
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for many people.
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Let's also appreciate the fact
that a black serving designation
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not only will draw black students, but
will draw more black faculty and staff.
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For those individuals now, it's like, hey,
there's an institution
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that's not just saying
that they care about me,
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but they're demonstrating
that they care about me.
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And I can go there
and I can help to build that village
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for all the other students
who are there and help them to succeed.
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And so I think that you know, we we
we want to diversify, right,
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our faculty and staff.
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I think that what you'll see is with the
BSI designation, that those institutions
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will have an easier time diversifying
in terms of black representation
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because of the the entire mixture of that
environment and what it's going to bring.
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Trustee Haynes, can you talk about what
it would mean for communities we serve?
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We are community colleges, right?
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So what would the designation of BSI
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mean for our community?
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So in communities of color, in particular,
the African-American community, the gold
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standard in many cases are the HBCU's,
and they're held in high esteem.
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Even though many of our students
can't afford to go there.
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All kinds of things prohibit,
but to be designated.
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A BSI in a neighborhood college
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would say to old timers,
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folks who who walk past that college
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who may not have ever gone,
but they have grandchildren.
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They have children.
It says that we see you,
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we know you exist and
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we care about you
and we want you to come here.
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Our doors are open.
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And I think that's
a really powerful invitation
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that they will see
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the college as their own college.
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It has been such an honor
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to each of you share your experience
and perspectives today.
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These conversations are important
because they ensure we never lose
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sight of what's really important
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if we're honest.
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Historically, higher education
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hasn't always set black and
African-American students up for success.
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Disparities
in graduation rates, access to resources,
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and even the feeling of being seen
in classrooms and on campuses
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have been issues for black students across the country.
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SB 1348 aims to shift our narrative,
starting right here in California.
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For years, California's
community colleges have led the way
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in engaging supporting black students
across the state, providing them
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with information resources
in the hope they need to succeed.
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With this new Senate bill, once again,
California's higher education
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institutions are setting a new standard
for the rest of the nation to follow.
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I want to personally
thank each of our panel members Dr.
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Luke Wood, Dr.
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Tammeil Gilkerson,
Pamela Haynes and Joia Miller
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for investing their time, energy
and hearts into these discussions.
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Your commitment and dedication
to providing a stronger foundation
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for success for our black students today
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and for years to come is inspiring.
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And I know our audience
feels the same way.
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Thank you,
Danny. I'll turn it back to you.
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Dr. Buul, Thank you.
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And thanks to each of our amazing panel
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community colleges have always been
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to success for black
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designation for colleges and universities
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Welcome to another special edition
of the Educate Elevate Podcast.
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I'm your host, Danny Morrison.
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In our last episode,
we began a powerful conversation
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about the impact of California
Senate Bill 1348
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on black and African-American college
students.
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This new legislation
officially allows qualified California
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universities to be recognized
as a black serving institution.
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If you missed part one of this discussion,
you might be thinking what exactly
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is a black serving institution
and why does this matter to me?
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Let me tell you, this is huge.
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This law brings
accountability and clear actionable steps
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to guarantee that black students aren't
just getting accepted into college,
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but are thriving and excelling
while they are there.
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With more black faculty programs
specifically tailored to black students
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and a determined focus on their success,
this designation gives our students
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renewed hope and confidence
that through higher education,
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they really can achieve their dreams.
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We covered a lot of ground last time,
but we have so much more to discuss.
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Guiding today's discussion
once again is Dr.
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Abdul-Malik Buul.
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Dr. Buul We're really looking forward
to continuing
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this important conversation,
so I'll let you dive right in.
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Thank you, Danny.
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I'm excited as well about picking up
where we left off.
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Before we begin,
I'd like to brief introduce
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our very special panel members
to any new viewers.
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Dr. Luke Wood, president of California
State University, Sacramento,
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and the youngest permanent president
for a four year public college
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or university in the nation
who was also appointed by the California
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State Senate to serve on the California
Racial Equity Commission.
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Dr. Tammeil Gilkerson,
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chancellor of the Peralta Community College
District in the Bay Area.
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She's also serving as a college president,
VP of Academic Affairs
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and Student Affairs, and was the first
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
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and Innovation officer for the Contra
Costa Community College District.
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Pamela Haynes, a member of the California
Community College's Board of Governors.
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She has more than 20 years of experience
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guiding and serving
higher education institutions.
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And finally, we have Joia Miller, Joia’s
a biology student at Mt.
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San Jacinto College,
who plans on transferring to a four university
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to double major
in biochemistry and neurology.
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She's also a proud Army
veteran, wife and mother.
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Thank you all for being here once again.
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Let's dive right back in.
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So the designation of a BSI - “black students
institution”, has truly transformed
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what it means to be a black student institution,
to be a black student on these campuses.
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How has that changed the trajectory
of your educational experience,
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or how will that change
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the trajectory for future black students
to enroll in our colleges?
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So when I was a kid speaking for myself
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and my siblings,
we watched the movie Drumline and
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Drumline made me want to be a dance girl
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so much and I became one
and I was so good at it.
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So good
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that when I went to Southern University,
the only reason I wasn’t a dance girl,
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is because I slept through the audition,
which is my fault.
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but having that opportunity
to live that lifestyle
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that we see in the movies,
it gives us so much credit and hope
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and it transforms
the way that we think about education.
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It's not it doesn't feel like a job.
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It feels like a home.
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It feels like a family.
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It feels like the place to be.
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It feels like
you're going to a block party
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and you're getting something out of it.
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And I think that that means so much
to so many people
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and to not have any HBCU’s
that sit in California.
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But to have that experience means so much.
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This fictional
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depiction becoming a reality exactly
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where they're geographically bound
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Dr. Wood, can you talk to us about that?
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Yeah, I mean, I think when we talk about
most black students in education,
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they have three general experiences
that we call a D3 effect, right?
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They experience distrust
where they're seen to be troublemakers or
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to have some sort of mal-intent is like,
like criminalized version of what happens.
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You see in in K-12
the suspensions and expulsions.
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You see it in higher education
with students being accused
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of cheating on tests.
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The second piece of that is disdain,
where we use the they statements.
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You know, they're lazy, they don't care.
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They're not really here for school.
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They're only here for the financial aid.
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And then the third one is disregard,
where we assume that they are
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academically inferior.
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They don't have the intelligence
to do the work.
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And so many of our black students
have been treated
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with distrust and staying in disregard.
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And we want them to be environments where
they're can experience hope and dignity.
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And the challenge with that
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is that if you think about outcomes
and what most the outcomes
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look like across most the institutions
in California, for black students,
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we know that the success rates are lower
than those who don't experience success.
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So that means that more students know
somebody who didn't succeed
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than someone who did.
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They know more students
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than someone who had a good experience.
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They know more people who dropped out
than those who graduated.
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And we don't think from our perspective
that that is a function of the students,
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their families or their communities,
but of institutions and educators
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that have not been prepared to effectively
and adequately serve them.
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And so the BSI designation provides
a framework and impetus for institutions
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to transition
to an environment of hope and dignity
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so that our students can experience
what they deserve, which is the very best.
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And, Dr. Gilkerson. Dr..
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we'll talk about three D’s.
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How do you see yourself
using your three P’s?
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I mean, give you three
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P’s - your power, your personality,
your privilege are uppercase or lowercase
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to create hope
for these black serving institutions.
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So when I came on as chancellor
of the Peralta Community College District,
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I coined passion, purpose
and possibilities.
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And that's really
what I believe is happening at Laney
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College in Merritt College in Berkeley
City called College of Alameda.
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Right. Like, it is this thing,
This is your legacy.
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It's your birthright, right?
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We have robbed you of this in so many ways
and told you stories
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that you're not good enough
or these kind of things.
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And everybody has done it.
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You see it on the news media,
you see it in, right, the justice system
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or the injustice system.
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We see it in
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all these spaces and we're trying to say,
come on, come on and take it.
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Take what's yours.
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Raise your hand. Fight for liberation.
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Get what you want for your family
and the generation that comes after you.
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That's what I'm here for.
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This is the piece is to hold out the hand
and say, grab it and come.
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And I don't care
if you don't know what you want to do.
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That's the beauty of the California
community colleges.
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You don't have to know what you want.
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You could change your mind ten times.
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We want you to come and say,
I raise my hand.
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I say, a student comes to the parking lot.
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Yes, right. Let's get him through
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Let's get into that next kind of thing.
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And so I think that's really what
we're trying to say, is there's this hope
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and that, institutions
that say, we want the designation.
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They are applying for designation
to say that this is what they want.
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They want you to get your birthright.
They want you to come
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and live your legacy.
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And we know you want connection.
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That's what every human wants, right?
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They want dignity and worth
and feeling valued.
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And that's what we want to create
in these spaces for students to be able
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to actualize themselves
and, you know, just find, you know,
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the genuine abundance and greatness
that's already within them.
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Right. Just to figure it out,
I'm still figuring it out.
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So, you know, come on and join me.
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Trustee Haynes,
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Dr. Gilkerson mentioned the term legacy.
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It's a full circle moment
as you being part of the integration
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period
of the California system as a student.
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And then now coming to see
a black serving institution in the state.
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It's true.
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Can you talk to us about
just the hope and what that would mean?
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So as many folks
know, I came out of California community
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colleges at Santa Monica
College was a very different time,
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and I did not know what my path was going
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to be relative
to being engaged in California
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community colleges, as I have been over
the last several years.
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It's transformative.
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And I feel like that student
who starts out
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not quite knowing what their path is
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and recognizing that BSI
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is a positive transformation,
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not a negative one
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changes the whole trajectory of success.
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And this may sound way too big,
but I don't think it is.
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We are moving into a designation that
that has such power here in California.
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I've just come off of a third trip
to Ghana,
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and what I have recognized
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all along this journey is our 400 years
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here in this country
where we're continuing to have to
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try to transform.
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And this is a wonderful step
in a really positive way
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to bring something
that's important to our students.
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Absolutely.
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One thing I'd love for us to tackle
if possible
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is you mentioned the sense of belonging
from the students perspective,
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but is also recruiting, retaining folks
committed
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to serving black students, classify
professors, administrators, faculty.
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So if we can kind of tee that up,
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you know, creating a sense
of belonging for them, too, because then
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the whole educational ecosystem
becomes a BSI at that point.
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So I have a quick story that I'll tell.
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So when I was the president of Laney
College, my first commencement ceremony,
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we had a valedictorian
and she had been gone
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through a very difficult life,
a life of drug addiction.
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Being justice
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impacted, having many, many things,
and at some point multiple children.
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And it decided at one point
to get healthy and get well
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and to decide
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that then she was going to move out
and come and actually go back to school
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and found a place at Laney College
that really said supported her.
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So faculty, counselors, staff
who wrapped around their arms and said,
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what do you want to do?
Where do you want to go?
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And she ended up years later,
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right, graduating as the valedictorian,
standing on stage to me,
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giving a speech, talking about Langston
Hughes’, right,
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seminal poem
and really calling it out and galvanizing.
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My first year back as chancellor,
the district at Laney College,
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this graduation, I'm standing on stage
and that year I actually give what,
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graduation to her son
who was incarcerated at the time
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that she gave her valedictorian speech
was in his cell, actually
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watching it on a burner phone,
watched his mother
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give the valedictorian speech and said,
I'm going to come out.
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I'm going to change my life.
I'm going to do.
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He graduated this last year
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and is transferring out to a historically
black college university.
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So it is this there is power in the work
when you have people who care about
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no matter how you come,
come take the step, walk through the door.
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I think what a BSI designation says is
we're trying to work with intentionality.
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This is your place. We see you right.
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And the opportunity
that it has for generations.
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I mean, what a privilege.
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You know that students are coming to us.
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I love what you said so much.
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My favorite poem is actually
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From Mother to Son by Langston Hughes.
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It has inspired me to continue
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even after that long, halted
period of my life.
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Also something,
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we're only going to praise
our Black community in February.
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Why wouldn't we do it year round?
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Why wouldn't
we have those projects in the classroom?
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Why wouldn't we analyze
a Langston Hughes or a Maya Angelou
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or I can't even think of what exactly
celebrate them.
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Yes. Yes, absolutely.
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Black Excellence 365 Absolutely.
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I think that that's something
that's so important that we need
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to bring into the college system,
not just here in California, but
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worldwide.
It’s critical to the work.
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And I think that's what
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hopefully the black serving institutions
will provide is not just, you know,
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the representation racial,
but the curriculum and the pedagogy
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and the andragogy and the consciousness
and the resources
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and also in the self efficacy and self
esteem of the student to say, hey,
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I understand that a lot of my historical
figures are revolutionary
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figures, but also part of evolution,
not just revolution.
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We have advanced society,
we have scientists and inventors
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and contributors
that have moved this goal forward.
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And so to have that space of ingenuity,
innovation is going to be a game changer
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for many people.
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Let's also appreciate the fact
that a black serving designation
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not only will draw black students, but
will draw more black faculty and staff.
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For those individuals now, it's like, hey,
there's an institution
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that's not just saying
that they care about me,
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but they're demonstrating
that they care about me.
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And I can go there
and I can help to build that village
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for all the other students
who are there and help them to succeed.
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And so I think that you know, we we
we want to diversify, right,
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our faculty and staff.
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I think that what you'll see is with the
BSI designation, that those institutions
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will have an easier time diversifying
in terms of black representation
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because of the the entire mixture of that
environment and what it's going to bring.
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Trustee Haynes, can you talk about what
it would mean for communities we serve?
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We are community colleges, right?
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So what would the designation of BSI
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mean for our community?
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So in communities of color, in particular,
the African-American community, the gold
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standard in many cases are the HBCU's,
and they're held in high esteem.
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Even though many of our students
can't afford to go there.
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All kinds of things prohibit,
but to be designated.
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A BSI in a neighborhood college
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would say to old timers,
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folks who who walk past that college
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who may not have ever gone,
but they have grandchildren.
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They have children.
It says that we see you,
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we know you exist and
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we care about you
and we want you to come here.
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Our doors are open.
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And I think that's
a really powerful invitation
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that they will see
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the college as their own college.
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It has been such an honor
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to each of you share your experience
and perspectives today.
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These conversations are important
because they ensure we never lose
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sight of what's really important
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if we're honest.
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Historically, higher education
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hasn't always set black and
African-American students up for success.
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Disparities
in graduation rates, access to resources,
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and even the feeling of being seen
in classrooms and on campuses
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have been issues for black students across the country.
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SB 1348 aims to shift our narrative,
starting right here in California.
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For years, California's
community colleges have led the way
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in engaging supporting black students
across the state, providing them
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with information resources
in the hope they need to succeed.
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With this new Senate bill, once again,
California's higher education
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institutions are setting a new standard
for the rest of the nation to follow.
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I want to personally
thank each of our panel members Dr.
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Luke Wood, Dr.
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Tammeil Gilkerson,
Pamela Haynes and Joia Miller
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for investing their time, energy
and hearts into these discussions.
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Your commitment and dedication
to providing a stronger foundation
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for success for our black students today
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and for years to come is inspiring.
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And I know our audience
feels the same way.
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Thank you,
Danny. I'll turn it back to you.
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Dr. Buul, Thank you.
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And thanks to each of our amazing panel
guests as well.
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community colleges have always been
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to success for black
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designation for colleges and universities
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