Institutional Equity & Belonging

Antiracism Commitment Committee

Committee Charge:

The Antiracism Commitment Committee (ACC) is CC’s community accountability body that evaluates the implementation and impact of CC’s antiracism plan and guides the revision and development of new goals as the plan evolves and remains relevant.

Committee Goals:

To hold the CC community accountable in making continuous progress on antiracism goals.
To use appropriate assessment tools to track progress, identify gaps and resistance, and make recommendations for new antiracism work goals.
To ensure that offices, departments, and programs improve coordination of antiracism work efforts.
To provide an annual report to the CC community and the Board of Trustees about the progress of antiracism goals.

Committee Leadership:

Rosalie Rodriguez, College Diversity Officer

Divisions/Members

Committee members
Representative Name	Division/Group Membership	Term End Year
Rakim Johnson	VP of Inclusion, CCSGA	25/26
Rakim Johnson	CCSGA Appointed	25/26
Luke Ortiz-Grabe	CCSGA Appointed	25/26
Kaviya Chidambaram	CCSGA appointed	26/27
TBD	CCSGA appointed	25/26
April Scriven	Finance and Administration	25/26
Naomi Trujillo	Communications	24/25
Edwin Hamada	Student Life	24/25
Ben Wirt	Staff Council	24/25
Yogesh Chandrani (Cory Scott /sabbatical)	FEC	25/26
Beth Malmskog	FEC	Annual
Alex Dominguez	Enrollment	25/26
Jeff Conarroe	Athletics	23/24
Jessica Kisunzu (sabbatcal)	Dean of the Faculty	25/26
Dustin Fife	Dean of the Faculty	24/25
Heather Powell Browne	Dean of the College	25/26
Nicole Herden	Fine Arts Center	25/26
	Human Resources	25/26
Nichole Ridenour	Advancement	25/26
Laura Schreiber	ITS	24/25
	Finance & Operations
Monica Indrebo	President's Division	26/27

Sub-Committees and Goals for 2024-25

Sub-Committees whill meet blockly. Full ACC will meet twice a year.

Cultivating Community: Lead Naomi Trujillo, Yogesh Chandrani, Nicole Herden, April Scriven

Goals:

Building bridges between faculty and staff
Engage in and promote initiatives to promote a deeper sense of place, community, history, and institutional identity in COS and Pikes Peak region for staff, faculty, and students.

Designing Infrastructure: Lead Sara San Souci, Luke Ortiz Grabe, Edwin Hamada, Dustin Fife

Goals:

Review /Analyze the Faculty Racial Climate Survey Data
Review and compile the divisional self-evaluations into composite indices
Assess the ADEI awards structure

Building Capacity: Lead Jeff Conarroe, Laura Schrieber, Rakim Johnson, Alex Dominguez

Goals:

Review/revise ACE grant procedure and review applications
Elevate visibility of Stewardship Certificate program offerings
Plan the Stewardship Certificate Ceremony
Identify conference or other capacity building events to attend as a committee

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Building Bridges: A Staff-Faculty Partnering Program

Want to help build community across campus, in a fun, low-commitment way?
Would you like to get to know some great new folks at work?
Want to attend a class in an area you’re interested in, or see how one of the other departments on campus operates?
Ever feel like there’s a divide between faculty and staff on campus?

If YES, then join the spring 2025 Building Bridges pilot program!

Meet someone new, learn about a different part of CC, get a free lunch, and win some sweet CC swag.

Here are the specific details:

Who: Any CC staff or faculty member.

What: Sign up now, and members of the Faculty Executive Committee (FEC), Staff Council (SC), and Antiracism Commitment Committee (ACC) will match you with a faculty member (if you’re staff) or a staff member (if you’re faculty), based on your interests but also with some randomness built in. You and your Building Bridges partner will choose some ways to interact. The basic package is for the staff member to visit the faculty member’s class or engage with their research/outreach in some fun way, and for the faculty member to visit the staff member’s office/workplace or engage with their work in some fun way, and for the partners to have lunch together at Rastall with lunch passes provided by the Dean of Faculty. This could be as little as 3 hours, during work hours, spread over the whole semester. We will also provide you with a list of other activities that you can try with your partner—attending CC events, cross-constituency social stuff, and other minor adventures. We will have some giveaways. We have some excellent CC swag and a little funding to make this fun!

When: Sign up by January 6 and we will match you before block 5. This pilot program is for spring 2025. We will continue the program for at least the next 3 semesters, so you can get matched with a new person every time.

Why: To have fun and build community across constituencies at Colorado College.

Questions? Email FEC chair Beth Malmskog (bmalmskog@coloradocollege.edu) or ACC member April Scriven (ascriven@coloradocollege.edu).

Presented by Staff Council, the Faculty Executive Committee, the Antiracism Commitment Committee, and the Dean of Faculty