USC Racial Equity Leadership Alliance

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USC Racial Equity Leadership Alliance

California Community Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance: SMC Membership

About the Alliance

The USC Race and Equity Center collaborates with institutions across the nation to empower faculty and staff members to strategically develop and achieve equity goals through climate studies, high quality learning experiences, substantive partnerships and workshops built to improve racial literacy on campuses.

One of the key programs that the USC Race and Equity Center has created is the California Community Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. The Alliance unites community colleges across the state of California for high-quality professional learning experiences on an array of topics pertaining to racial equity. Administrators, faculty, and staff across member colleges access a digital repository of useful tools and resources, as well as engage with colleagues beyond their individual campuses through a dynamic virtual community of practice.

SMC has now entered into year two of the alliance, and we invite all employees to explore the resources and ways to engage in 2022 and beyond.

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Attend Live Sessions

Equity Connect Portal

Set up your SMC Equity Connect Portal Account

Included with SMC's membership for year 2 is access for ALL SMC employees to USC's Equity Connect Portal (regardless if you attend a live eConvening or not). In this portal, you will find all the resources and recordings from the Alliance eConvening sessions, plus events, groups, forums, and ways to connect with colleagues from other colleges.

Below is the registration link for SMC and instructions for setting up an account for the portal. Any employee with an email domain that ends in @smc.edu can now register for the portal using the link below. Note that employees must use an email address that ends in @smc.edu.

Instructions for registering your account for the USC Equity Connect Portal:

Open the registration link for SMC: SMC's USC Equity Connect Portal Registration
Enter information requested and create a password for your account. Please use your SMC email address when registering (this will provide you access).
You will receive an email validation request upon registration. Please click “validate email” from the message in your email within 24 hours of receiving this email confirmation.
If you do not receive the validation email, please check your SMC Barracuda Email Protection Quarantine. If you find the validation email there in your message log, select it and click "allow list" and "deliver". It should show up in your email inbox momentarily.
Once you receive the email and you click “validate email” from within it, an email validation screen will appear. You will be redirected to the log in screen shortly after.
Enter your credentials for log-in (only works if you have validated your email).
The user log in site for employees will be here (after you create and register for an account): USC Equity Connect Portal

Please email us at epi@smc.edu if you have any questions or issues!

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2022 Live eConvenings

This professional learning series is for full-time and part-time employees at Alliance member institutions. Each month, nationally renowned equity experts will offer a highly-engaging live session via Zoom on a different racial equity topic. Useful tools and practical strategies will be provided in every synchronous three-hour experience. For the time being, USC has lifted the cap on attendance for each session and registration is open to all SMC employees (Full-time, Part-time, Faculty, Classified, and Administrators).

If you are not available to attend the live sessions, included with SMC's membership for year 2 is access for ALL SMC employees to USC's Equity Connect Portal. In this portal, you will find all the resources and recordings from the Alliance eConvening sessions, plus events, groups, forums, and ways to connect with colleagues from other colleges.

PDF Flyer for the Year 2 eConvening Series

Access SMC's Archived files and sessions from 2021

SMC Employees can access a SharePoint folder with all of the resources and recordings of the sessions from year 1 of the Alliance to view or download.

SMC's Archive of Equity Alliance Year 1 Files