Today we bring you the highlights from Spring Flex Day 2025, featuring segments from our keynote speaker Dr. Cristobal Rodriguez who starts us off on the theme of “Healing-Centered Engagement”. You’ll also hear key moments from the sessions “Common Course Numbering,” presented by Kelly Rivera, “Healing and Empowering Rising Scholars”, presented by Graciela Padilla & Joe Louis Hernandez, Ph.D and “Future Healers Lead With Early Alerts”, presented by Kenny Yen & Yolanda Haro. Enjoy!
Resources:
Keynote by Dr. Cristóbal Rodríguez, Associate Provost for Equity-Centered Initiatives and Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Related Resources:
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands = La Frontera : The New Mestiza. Ed. by Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez and Norma E. Cantú. Critical edition. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 2021. Print. [At the Mt. SAC Library General Collection 811.54 An98b 2021]
hooks, bell. All about Love : New Visions. First William Morrow paperback edition. New York, NY: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Print. [At the Mt. SAC Library General Collection 306.7 H764a]
Lorde, Audre. A Burst of Light : And Other Essays. Ixia Press edition. Mineola, New York: Ixia Press, 2017. Print. [At the Mt. SAC Library General Collection 814.54 L8849b]
Rodríguez, Cristóbal, Adam Amador, and B. Abigail Tarango. "Mapping educational equity and reform policy in the borderlands: LatCrit spatial analysis of grade retention." Equity & Excellence in Education 49.2 (2016): 228-240.
Common Course Numbering, Kelly A.F. Rivera, Common Course Numbering Coordinator, Geography and Political Science Department Chair, Professor of Political Science, and Academic Senate Legislative Liaison
Related Resources:
Common Course Numbering (CCN) Development and Faculty Engagement
Common Course Numbering Update (February 2025)
Cheryl Aschenbach ASCCC President and Erik Reese ASCCC Area C Representative, ASCCC Curriculum Committee Chair
Mt SAC Changes and Updates – Student Services page with updated legislative changes and how it impacts students
ASCCC Common Course Numbering (CCN) Development and Faculty Engagement Webpage – ASCCC Faculty CCN Resource
Common Course Numbering Project – Chancellor’s Office webpage
Common Course Numbering Task Force Report (December 2023)
Memo: ESLEI 24-22 Common Course Numbering Update (April 15, 2024)
Memo: ESLEI 24-53 Curricular Guidance and Information for Common Course Numbering (CCN) System Implementation (Phase I) (Sep 6, 2024)
Memo: ESLEI 24-55 Common Course Numbering Implementation Allocations (Sep 23, 2024)
Rising Scholars, Graciela Padilla & Joe Louis Hernandez, Ph.D
Website: https://www.mtsac.edu/rising-scholars/
California Community College Rising Scholars Network Website: https://risingscholarsnetwork.org/
Early Alert, Kenny Yen & Yolanda Haro
Early Alert Instructions: https://www.mtsac.edu/it/earlyalert.html
News Article about Early Alert & Navigate App: https://www.mtsac.edu/newsroom/news/posts/2023-10-3-navigateapp.html
Navigate Website: https://www.mtsac.edu/navigate/