Student Equity and Achievement (SEA) Committee
Meeting Minutes

MEETING DATE: 09/17/2026

1. Call to Order For information

Call to order 2:45pm

2. Review & Approve Agenda

• Motion to adjust agenda, moving Reports and Updates to start of meeting  

• Motion to approve agenda John Gomez, Michelle Gonzalez 2nd  

• All in favor, none opposed, motion passes 

3. Recap of the Previous Meeting

DEIAB charge by Michelle, left off with RI Data report, needing to dedicate time for LGBTQIA population, a lot of transitions, new members  

4. Old Business

• Office of Institutional Research- SEA Data Updates  

• Certification and Degree Completion Data continued presentation from May meeting. 

• Reviewing 24-25 academic year, 25-26 will be in the next presentation, numbers look good. 

• Up to 1639 in 10 years from 669 in 15-16. Broke down data with AA/AS and ADTs. Almost doubled in 10 years for degrees (over certificates) 

• 110% stretch goal to continue growth, looking good 

• Associate Degree 

• Time of Completion- (req 60 units, 1 degree) 5 years’ worth of data (1733 students overall averaged 2.5 years), 594 had associate 4 years average, 488 AAT 2.8 average time, 237 AS, 414 AST 3 years) Please see report for specific numbers on length.  

• Broken down by gender as well in report  

• Low Income (receiving pell of fee waiver) It takes this group longer, average 3.8, 25% complete 6.3 years. Not low income 3.0 years 

• By Race/Ethnicity disaggregated data: Asian avg 3.2 years, Black/African Am 3.0, Filipino/a/x 2.9, Latino/a/x 3.8, Multicultural 3.3 avg, White 3.4 ang., Other 3.8 avg 

• 1st generation college status (def no more than parents hs degree): Overall 3.4 avg., 1st gen 3.8 avg., not 1st gen is 3.3 avg., Unknown 4.5 avg.  

• Discussion 

• Paul asked if there is data at their entry point, placements for their pathway, remedial classes, what are the needs of the students when they first start. 

• Rajinder- the assessments have gone away with AB 1705, but some started with the assessments that were in place prior to AB 1705. What did they request help in? Did these groups ask for more help, but would need to dig through.  

• Michelle- students post covid are much quieter, poverty, not knowing how to navigate the system, no access to a counselor, wanting to be in school but not knowing how to do it, muddling through. Got lucky with supportive teacher who gave tips and pushed. 

• Jill- EOPS reqs is no bachelors, international bachelors/college is different   

• Nadiyah- still focused on students with their learning process, but persistence people show is very important and not said. ECE students started “15 years ago” 1 class at a time, stopping, starting again. Strong and profound point of resilience that is horribly lost in the conversation about getting the people out. Hopes to talk about it more, want to make sure their needs are met. Taking a long time doesn’t mean that they are doing something wrong, they are doing it right. 

• Rajinnder- spoke to a student who took 7 years, 1 class at a time, and it is success in a longer way.  

• Maria- agrees with conversation, everyone needs a motivation factor, there is so much story behind the numbers.  

• Jin- fully agree with Nadiyah the perseverance people show is profound. Shared story of a student met describing how circumstances can change so quickly and compound, admires students persistence, but our systems make it very difficult, pains him to hear how the dominoes cascade and burdensome just because $100 textbook.  

• Certificate Completion  

• Includes noncredited certificates 15-16 academic year 159, 24-25 academic year 575 completion. 

• 105% stretch goal for certificates, generally meet our institutional standard, think we will see a steady climb with proactive awarding  

• Disaggregated Data for Certificates and Associates Degrees 

• Historically it is usually high % of females, but these recent years it was more male with completion of certificates 

• Females remain higher % for awarded associates  

• Change in demographic may be reason for decrease in white % completion 

•  Joel had question about % of student, taken outside of the context, hard to make meaning 

• Broken down by age, race, 1st gen, low income, 

• Low Income- Overrepresented with certificates, underrepresented for associates  

• Asian population has increased significantly, while white has decreased.  

• CSU/UC transfer has increased from 23%-33% over the past 10 years, majority of Asians go to CSU/UC, only 20% of Latinx go to UC.  

• Are types of certificates affecting the change? 

• 23-25 had proactive awarding in jump of completion  

5. New Business

• New Faces, New Ideas! SEA Committee Goals and Priorities 

• Introduction of all members  

• Everything is intentional, grateful for the data and metrics, reviewed charge that is on the website, the data drives everything we do. Where we invest our money, have our own dashboard on IR website 

• Counseling Division All College Day Brainstorm Session-  

• Need for DI data- CRM advise did mark them as “priority engagement marker” 

• Michael Peterson- More data is needed on drops, Ws, other colleges are doing this and asking survey question on why after they commit the drop. CCC data  

• Michelle agrees that English instructors would do CSEP assignment and suggested that someone from counseling do it so it is ready to input in Canvas 

• Michelle questioned how to save counseling for DI groups when semester starts for last minute appts 

• More late start classes would be helpful, Amy commented on students accidentally signing up for late start and not succeeding  

• Should we bring back students creating CSEPs? 

• Call campaigns are great, but student ambassadors need to figure out a way to document- John Gomez 

• Suggested counselors attend advisory board meeting  

• Ongoing/Achieving Goals - Equity Action Plan 

• Guided Pathways – 26/27 Vision 

• GP retreat- great guided pathways retreat over summer- looking at student success teams. Bring more activity to it, make the process clearer. Needed to reevaluate the success teams- more student services, but needs more instructional faculty for the success process. Some of what we looked at is who should be on the success team, what kind of data, what is their presence. Term can be familiar with what is LPC success team. John will start admin lead for pathway coordinator. GP wants the student parent work to continue. 1st meeting is tomorrow for GP Steering Committee. Goal is to clarify and revamp Success Teams. Want case management style one day.  

6. Reports/Updates

• DEIAB- Team cannot be done without IR Rajinder and David did over summer with new dashboard! College day trainings and slide decks are online. DEIAB goal is to support faculty colleagues in getting the professional development they need and want to improve success rates for DI groups.  

• English, Math, and ESL Update 

• Math update is that we are revisiting the modes of offering for our classes.  For concurrent support we are having conversations about more in-person requirements or offering some sections in-person only.  Here is data on statistics class last spring by modality of instruction: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1690NCWwIBwvXuRsvw4Eb7J9tbmUpgivXUArCE8Athz0/edit?usp=sharing 

• English- Michelle- AB 1705 interventions for English Center. Quiet reading and study room now open. Student tutors and IA again. Biggest indicator for success in English is ability to read and readiness to get it done. Group work is done in other space. Doing very well, trained student assistants. Jessica Romo will do drop-in counseling. Goal is to serve students in soft and gentle way and to collaborate with others.  

• ESL- tremendous challenges- were able to do test assessment with State, but now they aren’t approved and vendors pulled out. Colleges are forced to do self-placement again which historically hasn’t gone well. Appropriate placement continues to be a challenge. Immigration policy has led to decrease in enrollment.   

• HSI Grant Update (Dr. John Gomez)- HSAI grant is officially ending end of the month. Student ambassadors will continue. Part of the challenge is that the ambassadors graduated and now new group will be starting their training so they can start cart and calling campaigns.  

• Guided Pathways (Nadiyah Taylor) 
• Basic Needs- working on impact report, supported 2000+ visits to minimarket and 700+ to farmers market. 10/20 next farmers market. 100 students served this past farmers market. Cohort is growing and doing well.  

7. Good of the order

For information

8. Adjournment

Meeting adjourned at 4:45pm

Next meeting: October 15th, 2026