January 2024
We at Education Insights Center (EdInsights) want to wish you a very Happy New Year! As we move into 2024, we are reflecting on our impacts from 2023 and looking ahead to what this new year will bring.
With many things to be proud of, we’ll share just some of our highlights. In addition to welcoming several new staff members in 2023, EdInsights:
- Completed and began implementation of a Center strategic plan, including collaboratively drafting a Center Equity Statement.
- Conducted a retrospective evaluation of College Futures Foundation funded CSU-California community college transfer partnerships.
- Completed our eighth fiscal year as evaluators for the California Community College Chancellor’s Office Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative and launched the ninth year of this collaboration. In 2023 based on our recommendations, the Chancellor’s Office adopted our classification of their professional learning events, rolled out new professional learning opportunities for part-time faculty and classified professionals, and continued sustained-engagement programming (e.g., communities of practice).
- Launched a multi-year impact study of the California Community College Chancellor’s Office Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) efforts.
- Launched an evaluation of the California community college Umoja programs.
- Welcomed and engaged a new cohort of EPFP fellows.
- With the CSU Student Success Network (Network), we:
- recruited 11 teams for the Middle Leadership Academy that represent nine campuses and one cross-campus team,
- held convenings on creating equity-focused change and re-enrollment,
- published a memo on supporting students from mixed status families and a blog series on first generation students in the CSU, and
- launched a memo series on supporting LGBTQIA2S+ students in the CSU.
In 2024, stay tuned for the following:
- The second and third memos in our series on supporting LGBTQIA2S+ students in the CSU – January and February, 2024
- EdInsights’ Equity Statement – February, 2024
- Our report on Transfer Partnerships – February, 2024
- The Network’s first LGBTQIA2S+ Symposium – March 7 & 8, 2024 (Sacramento, CA)
- The Network’s “Separate but Not Equal: Recognizing the 70th Anniversary of Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas” Event in collaboration with the CSU Chancellor’s Office – April 24, 2024 (virtual)
- The Umoja program evaluation report – fall, 2024
- The first report from the EEO evaluation – fall, 2024
- An impact report on the Network’s Equity in Action Grants – fall, 2024
….and much more!
Best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year,
The EdInsights Team