Equity, Pathways, & Inclusion

To meet our commitments to reach SMC’s racial equity imperative and student success goals, the EPI department is driven by SMC’s equity mission and vision and strives to:

• Work with the various institutional bodies and key stakeholders to develop, align, support, and assess equity-focused decision-making, programming, education, training and activities to promote and advance equity, pathways and inclusion
• Foster greater collaboration, synergy, action, and change to build engaging, culturally-responsive, inclusive, and equity-centered experiences for all our college campus community (students, faculty, staff, administrators) who belong to historically racially minoritized and disenfranchised groups. 
• Identify and work towards removing policies, practices, and procedures that create inequitable barriers and experiences to the access and success of all our college campus community (students, faculty, staff, administrators) who belong to historically racially minoritized and disenfranchised groups. 
• Center a culture of care and belonging, both inside and outside the classroom, to improve the racial climate at SMC
• Draw from existing scholarship and evidence-based practices to provide leadership, support, education and accountability in advancing equity, pathways and inclusion.
• Work to cultivate an environment at SMC where equity and inclusion is inescapable because it’s infused in everything we do

The department of Equity, Pathways, and Inclusion is currently in our inaugural year of service and are diligently working to build an infrastructure to meet the commitments of the EPI department.  To date, the EPI department has been supporting and collaborating on the following programs, activities, and grants: 

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) STEM/Equity Grant
• California Trustee Fellowship Intersession Project grant with the Math Department
• California Guided Pathways (Redesigning the Student Experience)
• Equitizing Gateway Courses Program (EGC)
• Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI)
• Student Equity and Achievement Program (SEAP)
• The Center for Teaching Excellence
• Program Maps
• Student Care Teams
• GPS
• Direct Connect

JOIN THE PERIOD TASK FORCE!

IN OCTOBER OF 2021, THE CA STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED AB-367, THE MENSTRUAL EQUITY FOR ALL ACT.

SMC'S PERIOD CLUB DECIDED TO START A TASK FORCE TO WORK WITH THE ADMINISTRATION AS IT IMPLEMENTED THE LAW.

WHAT IS AB- 367?

This bill would require a public school maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12 to stock the school’s restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women’s restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom, at all times.

This bill would require the California State University and each community college district, and would encourage the Regents of the University of California and private universities, colleges, and institutions of higher learning, to stock an adequate supply of menstrual products, available and accessible, free of cost, at no fewer than one designated and accessible central location on each campus.

WHY DO WE NEED A TASK FORCE?

AB-367, and the Administration's Spring 2021 trial is a great start to addressing period poverty. As a Task Force, we will partner with the school to make sure that people closest to the issue are always at the table when decisions are being made.

But period health is about more than access to products. It also means providing education and resources to end period stigma and shape a healthier community for all menstruators and the people who love them!

Anyone can participate in the TaskForce!

Just email: period.santamonicacollege@gmail.com
and check out our Jam Board: https://bit.ly/3ylyh2D

SMC'S PERIOD CLUB DECIDED TO START A TASK FORCE TO WORK WITH THE ADMINISTRATION AS IT IMPLEMENTED THE LAW.
 
THE PERIOD CLUB ALSO DECIDED TO TURN OUR ADVOCACY WORK INTO OUR SCHOLARSHIP AND UNITS!

 

The Academic Senate Career Education Committee Invites the SMC Community to Their Winter Retreat:

First Steps Toward Recovering with Equity

Friday, January 28th, 2022
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Via Zoom

Keynote Speaker Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

SMC Faculty Research Roundtable with Luis Andrade, Vicenta Arrizon Maffris, and Kas Metzler

SMC Alumni Panel

Register Here