Spring 2024
WHEREAS, The Student Senate for California Community Colleges seeks to “advance our goals of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice for the success of students” [1] and has recognized the importance of uplifting the LGBTQ+ Community [2];
WHEREAS, There has been an increasing trend of anti-LGBTQ+ policy permeating educational spaces, [3] which has touched California’s Community Colleges from the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District [4] in the Bay Area to the North Orange County Communicty College District [5];
WHEREAS, Intentionally creating places to center LGBTQ+ people in curriculum across California’s Community Colleges ensures that students have a more well rounded education and a fuller picture of the diverse communities in our state, and centering and including LGBTQ+ people in education has in various contexts, been shown to reduce anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination,[6] increase public health,[7] and decrease stigma and bullying[8]; and
WHEREAS, The California Community College system has already recognized, in the context of ethnic studies, that usage of a variety of tactics from encouraging curriculum development of courses concerning marginalized people to introducing graduation requirements for these same courses can be important tools for equity,[9] and the SSCCC has done the same via resolution [10]; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges make it a priority to advocate for the proliferation and propagation of queer studies courses throughout the California Community College system, with a goal of these courses being available at every California Community College.
WHEREAS, There has been an increasing trend of anti-LGBTQ+ policy permeating educational spaces, [3] which has touched California’s Community Colleges from the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District [4] in the Bay Area to the North Orange County Communicty College District [5];
WHEREAS, Intentionally creating places to center LGBTQ+ people in curriculum across California’s Community Colleges ensures that students have a more well rounded education and a fuller picture of the diverse communities in our state, and centering and including LGBTQ+ people in education has in various contexts, been shown to reduce anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination,[6] increase public health,[7] and decrease stigma and bullying[8]; and
WHEREAS, The California Community College system has already recognized, in the context of ethnic studies, that usage of a variety of tactics from encouraging curriculum development of courses concerning marginalized people to introducing graduation requirements for these same courses can be important tools for equity,[9] and the SSCCC has done the same via resolution [10]; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges make it a priority to advocate for the proliferation and propagation of queer studies courses throughout the California Community College system, with a goal of these courses being available at every California Community College.