Center for Leadership Development
2023-2024 Program Review

The Center for Leadership and Development (CLD) serves as the coordination point for many services located within the Student Center Building. We strive to create a sense of community that promotes civic engagement, equity, social justice, self-discovery, student achievement, diversity, and pluralism through the creation and support of student-centered initiatives and activities. Here you’ll find information about becoming a leader through the Associated Student Body, Student Government, Clubs, and our SAGES program.

Due to no data on the Student Satisfaction with ARC Support Services Survey, we do not have much data for this question. See #3 for some internal data that we shared regarding advancing equity.???????

The CLD hosts campus tours to current and prospective students

• Fall 2023: 62 tours, 508 students

o  Spring 2024 (as of March 8, 2024): 63 tours, 722 students

 Tours snapshot for 23-24 year:

•  Large HS tours (30 or above): 6
• Large middle school tours (30 or above): 4
• Rising Scholars coordinated tours: 2
• Native Center tours: 1
• Puente Tours: 2
• Charter school tours: 18
•  Foster Youth tours: 2

• ·     Cultivate and foster relationships with learning communities
•  Visit during Umoja village time, Puente meetings, PRIDE Center to inform students of ASB, services etc
•  Embed equity training into ASB Orientation and meetings

Student Senate has passed the following bills for our DI student populations:

• Spring 24- $5,000 for Mobile Black History Museum
• Fall 23- $9,999 to PRIDE Center for advocacy around LGTBQ advocacy.
• Spring 22- $5,000 to Native American Resource Center for Native Library materials
• Spring 20/Fall 2021- $8,000 for mural by former Umoja student on 2^nd floor of STEM building
• Fall 2021-23: Passed funds of up to $25,000 to Model United Nations to participate in Model UN conferences.
• Fall 2019- Senate passed $10,000 to send students to QTPOC in Riverside, CA in March 2020.
• 2017-2018 & 2018-19 ASB boards passed $11,000 to fund the mural currently in front of LRC with Latinx artist Ruby Chacon. The mural reflects the diverse population of ARC and many of the folks in the mural were ARC students.

• Lobbied at State Capitol and virtually (2021-2022) for bills focused on Financial Aid reform, Basic Needs funding, and Promise Grant funding

Club and Events Board has chartered numerous clubs with a focus on equity and inclusion or directly serving DI students:

• Puente
• Women In STEM
• GASA & QTPOC (LGTBQ focused clubs)
• Umoja & Black Student Union
• Muslim Student Association
• Native American Student Union
• SOARD (Club serving Disabled students)
• ARC Rugby Club* (approximately 65% of club identifies as Asian-Pacific Islander)

• Meditation space: While all students and staff can use the meditation room, it is primarily used by students who identify as Muslim. We have collaborated with the Muslim Student Association to create equitable policies to ensure religious needs and cultural norms have been met to the best of our abilities and resources.
• Since Feb 27, 2023 (new CLD Check-In system) through March 7, 2024: 650 meditation room visits

• With the passing of AB 963, the CLD has been tasked with registering students to vote in California Primary and General elections, along with encouraging students to become civically engaged. The CLD registered the following number of students:
• 2018- 56 students
• 2020- 608 students
• 2021- 18 students
• 2022- 112 students
• 2023- awaiting official data from CA Secretary of State office

• Collaborate with outreach office to hosts more campus tours with local charter schools and/or local High Schools with similar DI populations or designated Title 1 schools.
• Connect with State Chancellor’s Office and Los Rios District office for more guidance on how Student Representation Fees (SRF) can be used to eliminate DI.
• Continue to foster and cultivate relationships with UNITE, faculty coordinators and students.
• More specific presentations to Umoja, Puente, PRIDE, Native Center, Rising Scholars, Black Student Success, and PRISE to connect students to CLD resources and programs.
• Work with IT and Office of Institutional Effectiveness on best practices to collect DI data (surveys, check ins etc)
• Seek Professional Development for student leaders/employees and staff around Equity and Inclusion.
• Continue to eliminate barriers to create student clubs, join Associated Body etc

-AB 1736 allows for students to be officers in ASB or clubs with less than 5 units and 2.0 GPA for students with DSPS accommodations and adult ed students.

• Increase participation in new faculty orientations, in the hopes of informing new faculty about student clubs. This would ideally lead to more faculty advisors.
• Inform student leaders about current campus Equity Plan, and ongoing efforts with current strategic plan.

• Professional Development around equity, diversity and inclusion for students and staff

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• Student Government 300 course: More time to inform student leaders about Brown Act, Parliamentary Procedure, campus and district policies, equity and inclusion. The course is CSU transferable as well.
• Funding to support more campus tours- we have noticed a large uptick in tour requests but need more trained students to lead tours.
• Many local HS campuses struggle to get transportation due to local district constraints.
• We only offer large tours (30+) on Fridays due to staffing availability and budget

• Training on ARC Data on Demand for staff and students
• CLD surveys in the Student Satisfaction with Support Surveys
• Strategies and best practices on how to collect data for students who utilize our services and programs.
• Streamline process of paying students appointed to shared governance committees.
• Support and advocating paying our student leaders with their student representation fees.
• Eliminating the advisory vote for the Los Rios Student Trustee. Previous ASB boards and Student Trustees have advocated for this at the state level with the Student Senate of California Community Colleges (SSCCC).
• Streamline purchasing policies for student clubs and ASB. Many students and advisors pay for things up front and wait for reimbursement than navigate the policies of creating PO #s or using vendors approved by the district.
•  ASB having access to a campus credit hard with safeguard policies in place to avoid fraudulent purchases.
• Many clubs from DI populations are asked to wait for reimbursement for large purchases. It places a financial burden on students and/or faculty that come from DI pops.

Like most programs, the pandemic drastically shifted our operations, staff etc. Since the last Program Review in 2018, we have had 4 Campus Presidents, 2 VP Student Services, 4 Deans, 2 Supervisors and multiple classified staff have turned over. The loss of institutional memory, especially during remote operations, has had an impact on the CLD.

The Student Center was closed from March 2020 to August 2022. We are still adjusting to serving hybrid and remote students, along with identifying patterns within the class schedule when it comes to planning campus events, appointing students to shared governance committees etc.

One thing that did happen at the onset of the pandemic was the 2019-20 ASB board really pushed for using their funds for Basic Needs for ARC students. However, both the district and the state did not allow them to spend their Student Rep fees on basic needs, as it was considered a gift of public funds. That board spent countless hours discussing opportunities, drafting resolutions, and having conversations with fellow student leaders and advisors across the state.

Based on their efforts, there was one positive. ASB in Fall of 2020 voted on changing their seal/logo to include the word equity. They wanted future ASB members to always incorporate equity into their advocacy work on behalf of students. While it may be seen as just a logo, it sent a statement and philosophy change of what ASB can and should be doing on behalf of their constituents.