
It’s with great enthusiasm that we look forward to a year of change at EdInsights. Next month we will announce a new executive director, poised to lead our work within California’s educational community. As we enter 2025, we reflect on the transformative impacts within our center, and take this as an opportunity to share our progress with all of you.
In 2024, EdInsights celebrated 23 years of service, focused on a renewed purpose to drive research, provide evaluation services, and create collaborative professional learning spaces that inform and advance antiracist approaches to policy making and practice. EdInsights is proud to share the following accomplishments during the past year:
- Welcomed four new staff members, which expanded the administrative and research teams.
- Published a center equity statement, which reaffirmed our understanding of and commitment to equity throughout our work. Each team member had a chance to review the statement and provide feedback before collectively sharing the statement with our audiences.
- Finalized and published a report on transfer partnerships with support from the College Futures Foundation.
- Completed an evaluation of the Umoja programs across the California Community Colleges, in partnership with the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and the Umoja Community Education Foundation, and provided a legislative report that captured our findings.
- Completed the first year of a multi-year impact study of the California Community College Chancellor’s Office Equal Employment Opportunity programs.
- Celebrated nine years as the official evaluators of the California Community College Chancellor’s Office Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative. Over the years, we have built on our work by refining EdInsights’ classification of the Chancellor’s Office’s professional learning events, and documenting the launch of new opportunities for part-time faculty and classified professionals, and the expansion of sustained-engagement programs such as Communities of Practice.
- Launched a new guest blog series titled “Fellowship Insights” with the 2023-24 California Education Policy Fellowship Program (CA EPFP) cohort contributing ten blog posts dedicated to addressing the multifaceted challenges in California’s education system, from K-12 to higher education.
- Recruited 20 passionate education professionals from across the state to join the 2024-25 cohort of CA EPFP fellows.
California State University (CSU) Student Success Network Achievements
The CSU Student Success Network (Network) made significant strides in 2024:
- In collaboration with the Chancellor’s Office, the Network hosted a system-wide webinar to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education focused on the ongoing fight for African American educational freedom and success in the CSU system. Read the blog, “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Round: The Fight for African American Educational Freedom and Success in the CSU”, written by Network director, Shonda Goward, Ed.D., to learn more about the event.
- The Middle Leadership Academy (Academy) recruited twelve campus teams of CSU students, staff, researchers, and faculty for the 2024-25 cohort.
- The Knowledge Center published and disseminated:
- the first in a series of impact briefs aimed at exploring outcomes from participating in the Academy; and
- key insights from the first Equity in Action grant program, highlighting results from 22 campus initiatives.
- The communications team launched a newly redesigned website, featuring a fresh, improved navigation, and enhanced functionality to better serve users.
We are energized to continue working to advance equity with intentionality in how we approach research, support professional learning, decide which projects we develop and pursue, and structure our organization.
With this in mind, we look forward to honoring our commitments and driving forward our vision and purpose in 2025. We wish you a healthy and prosperous new year and look forward to connecting with you through our shared dedication to educational equity.
The EdInsights Team