Research shows that college students who feel that they belong at their institutions get better grades and fare better on persistence, 订婚, 心理健康. 归属感 is the extent to which students feel personally accepted, 受人尊敬的, 包括, supported and allowed to be their authentic selves by others in the school environment.
Creating a Culture of 归属感 & 目的, is an essential cornerstone of ACC’s commitment to serve all students, eliminating disparities and increasing success in service of our unifying goal of achieving an institutional completion rate of 70% by 2030. ACC’s new 归属办公室 & 目的 works with multiple internal partners across the District’s eleven campuses to identify groundbreaking, 积极主动的, and innovative neutral approaches based upon research-based best practices data to strengthen ACC’s capacity to create and sustain a 文化 of belonging where the achieving of our unifying completion goal becomes reality. 归属感办公室 & 目的 also consults with ACC Legal Counsel to ensure these approaches are lawful and in compliance with Tex. 建造. 法典第51条.3525.
How We Practice ACC’s 值
勇气
As we comply with Senate Bill 17 law, we can operate with the courage and strength of our convictions in naming and facing challenges head-on in supporting and providing resources for all students regardless of how they identify, 他们的生活经历, different cultural backgrounds or strengths, 观点多样性. Our students can remain confident that we sincerely desire to and will do whatever we reasonably and lawfully can to help them achieve their goals.
同情
Every student counts and we are committed in our collaborations with multiple internal and external partners to build an environment of other-centeredness, 同理心, 善良, and love that enables all students, 教师, 工作人员, and 员工 to win together. By intentionally extending ourselves to help others move forward in academic and organizational excellence our actions today lay the foundation for other’s triumphs tomorrow.
快乐
Bringing joy and passion into our work with each other and our students each day, we continuously create spaces to hear and see others who differ from ourselves…without requiring agreement. In such compassionate spaces and practices we acknowledge each other’s stories and suffering leading to more understanding of what we share-not what divides us. Bound by ACC’s unifying completion goal we strive together with all partners to provide the support and resources needed to help all students, 工作人员, 教师, and 员工 achieve the unifying goal.
是的
We find a “是的” when faced with any obstacle in our students’ way by 合作 with multiple internal and external partners across the district to assess and develop potential strengths in institutional processes and structures to make them more user-friendly to all.This includes drawing knowledge from and being influenced by as broad a set of sources, 人, 经历, 专业知识, 观点, and knowledge so we may implement ranges or sets of customized and scalable strategies that advance all ACC students, 员工, and communities served toward achieving their educational goals and professional outcomes.
关键概念
归属感 is a feeling of being accepted and valued by others, 一种联系感, 社区, and recognition of one’s uniqueness and distinctiveness.
目的 is a sense of meaning and direction in life, a connection to something larger than oneself, and a contribution to the common good.
的优势 are positive qualities and abilities that enable individuals to achieve their goals, 克服挑战, 表达他们的价值观.
有针对性的普遍性 means setting universal goals and strategies pursued by targeted processes to achieve those goals for all groups served. The targeted strategies are based on how different groups are situated within structures, 文化, and across geographies to obtain the universal goal. 它是目标导向的, 关注数据, 连接, 合作, and the caring concept of bridging.
桥接 is about creating compassionate space and practices where we acknowledge each other’s stories and suffering without necessarily agreeing. It is about co-constructing a larger “we”, with shifting differences and similarities. 通过它, all 人 experience being heard, 被看见, 被照顾, which is the ultimate outcome of belonging.
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