Community Affairs Program
WORKING IN AND GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
Diversity & Equity Committee
The Atlantic Cape Community College’s Diversity & Equity Committee Board of Trustees was formed in 1984. Concerned citizens, representatives of community organizations, faculty and staff were invited to a series of hearings to discuss minority representation at the College.
The charge of the Diversity and Equity Committee, a subcommittee of the Board of Trustees at Atlantic Cape Community College, is to review the recruiting and hiring practices used to fill faculty and staff positions at the college and also to review the college's student recruitment, enrollment, and retention strategies implemented to sustain a diverse student population at Atlantic Cape.
The committee should review the effectiveness of these initiatives for comparison with the (1) minority demographics of Atlantic and Cape May counties. The committee should also review benchmarks for these initiatives set by other community colleges of similar size and location. Further, the committee is charged to review academic and student support services provided to retain and promote student success at the college. As requested, the committee should actively participate in and support programs that promote college-wide diversity.
Diversity & Equity Committee Members
Programs & Activities
Each year during Black History Month, the Diversity and Equity Committee, through its college liaison officer and the dean of students and her staff, schedules a month long celebration of African-American programming open to schools and the community.
Each year the committee spearheads a Summer Youth College for Atlantic and Cape May county students. The mission of the program is to create an interest in attending college. 80 public school students were invited to the 2011 Summer Youth program at Atlantic Cape's Worthington Atlantic City Campus and the Cape May County Campus the year. Board of trustees members Helen Walsh and Maria Torres co-chared the subcommittee. The program was sponsored for the most part by the Borgata Heart and Soul Foundation, Cape Bank Charitable Foundation, and Guthrie Glass and Mirror Company. Letters were sent to school principals asking them to nominate a limited number of students who fit the selected criteria of need and scholastic citizenship.
For additional information, please contact Bobby L. Royal, Sr., College Liaison Officer
for the Board of Trustees, Diversity and Equity Committee broyal@atlantic.edu
1 Minorities are defined as: American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African
American, Hispanics or Latinos, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders, or Other
(Under represented populations).
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