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!
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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
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