CUESTA COLLEGE
CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND
STUDENT EQUITY COMMITTEE
Reference: Education Code Section Section 87100 et seq.; Title 5, Section
53000, et seq.
The San Luis Obispo Community College District defines cultural competence as
the ability to embrace diversity. This is demonstrated throughout the college
and is reflected in employees’ ability to respond respectfully, effectively, and
inclusively to diverse ideas and disparate individuals, acknowledging that to do
so strengthens the learning and working environment. Exercising cultural
competence includes developing one’s understanding of people’s differences,
recognizing one’s biases and seeking not to be limited by them in one’s thinking
and one’s actions, and challenging institutional systems and policies that
sustain inequalities. The Board is committed to staff development, hiring
processes and a campus environment that embody cultural competence.
Approved: January 14, 2009
Effective Date: January 14, 2009
Board
Policy 7100: Cuesta Colleges' commitment to cultural competence. Adopted
January 2009.
Presidential Proclamation-19th
anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act,
7/24/2009
