Black Student Success Week
April 21 – April 25, 2025
Save the date! (flyer) Registration: https://blkstudentsuccess.com/
Black Student Success Week is a statewide initiative celebrating and advocating for Black student success in California’s Community Colleges. The theme for 2025 is "Lift Up. Level Up."
Black Student Success Week is organized and supported in partnership with the following organizations: California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, Foundation for California Community Colleges, American Association of Community Colleges, Association of California Community Colleges Trustees, National Council on Black America Affairs, A2MEND, Umoja Community, The Campaign for College Opportunity, The Education Trust-West, Equity Avengers, The RP Group, Secrets of the Queendom, Nandi, The Village Demands, Pipeline Possibilities, California Competes, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Student Senate for California Community Colleges, and the Community College League of California.
Las Positas College BSSW Events 2025 - Lift Up. Level Up.
* Join us daily in the BCRC from 12pm to1pm, for #TheBlackHour, a webinar series hosted by BSSW statewide. Register or join us in the BCRC for the livestream. Registration: https://blkstudentsuccess.com/
Monday, April 21
* BSSW Webinar: The Rise of Black-Serving Institutions
The webinar explores the growing need for a formal Black Serving Institution (BSI) designation, focusing on California community colleges. The session emphasizes how a BSI designation addresses systemic inequities, enhances resources, and improves educational outcomes, ensuring these colleges better serve their communities.
Tuesday, April 22
* BSSW Webinar: Black Servingness: Maintaining Our Voice and Action
This session will explore the importance of "Black Servingness" nationally and in the state of California. Servingness involves surrounding students, faculty, staff with the cultural ambiance that allows and prioritizes their cultural heritage in ways that profoundly support and affirm their dignity and sense of belonging. As we navigate these unprecedented times in higher education, this session will focus on what actions can be taken now to shape "Black Servingness" at institutions of higher education.
Wednesday, April 23
*BSSW Webinar: Power Moves: Equipping Black Talent for Tomorrow's Workforce
This session is a dynamic workshop designed to empower Black students with the tools, insights, and inspiration needed to thrive in high-growth industries. The session offers participants a rare opportunity to engage with top Black CEOs who have excelled in fields driving the future of work: cybersecurity, healthcare, and skilled trades.
Thursday, April 24
*BSSW Webinar: Putting the AFRICAN in African America Student Success
In Fall 2024, 375 educators and leaders from across the state attended the second All African Diaspora Education Summit (ADES) in Ghana, Africa, to learn about African-centered ways of being, thinking, teaching, and learning. Learn more about the Summit, African-centered education, and how faculty are activating what they learned to create Black-serving classrooms and institutions.
*BSSW Webinar: Live from the Frontlines of Black Student Success: Accounts from Practitioners and Executive Leadership
Join us for a session highlighting real-time reflections from esteemed Black Student Success Practitioners and Executive Leadership working tirelessly to lift up and level up the movement.
Las Positas College BSSW Events 2024
* Join us daily in the BCRC from 12pm to1pm, for #TheBlackHour, a webinar series hosted by BSSW statewide. Register or join us in the BCRC for the livestream.
Monday, April 22
* BSSW Webinar: CCC Bachelor’s Degree Programs – Are They Delivering on the Dream
for Black
Students?
Soul Cream Social, 1:00-2:00pm, BCRC
Tuesday, April 23
* BSSW Webinar: Combatting the Affirmative Action Ban: Levers for Increasing Black
Student
Success at the State and Federal Level
A2MEND Open House, 12:00-2:00pm, BCRC
Wednesday, April 24
*BSSW Webinar: Empower Black Excellence: Policies, Workforce Development, and
Apprenticeships for College-to-Career Success
BEA Meet ’n Greet, 2pm-4pm, BCRC
Thursday, April 25
*BSSW Webinar: Just Because We Make It Look Easy, Doesn’t Mean It Is
*BSSW Webinar: AI and Racial Equity
Las Positas College BSSW Events 2023
Join us daily from 12pm to1pm, for #TheBlackHour, a webinar series hosted by BSSW statewide. Register or join us in the BCRC for the livestream.
Monday, April 24
Black Student Leadership Summit, 9am-12pm, BCRC (must RSVP)
Tuesday, April 25
Soul Cream Social, 1pm-2:30pm, BCRC
Wednesday, April 26
Past Events (click on each to enlarge)
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