ILEA Equity Plan | Elgin Community College (ECC)

The Holistic Case Management Model strategy is connected to other institutional efforts and
supports ECC’s strategies in our 2018-2022 Strategic Plan. See Table 9 for specific strategies
that are aligned.
The Success Indicators used to demonstrate this strategy is having an impact are:
• Student completion of course and programs
• Student progression through coursework
• Student job attainment
• Transfer to subsequent educational institutions
• Student engagement and satisfaction with college programs and services
• Enrollment of identified target populations
• Preparedness of graduates for transfer and/or employment
ILEA EQUITY PLAN STRATEGY 7: TIDE: Teaching/Learning Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity
The TIDE Group works in conjunction with ECC’s Center for Enhancement of Teaching &
Learning (“CETL”), Professional/Organizational Development, and Student Services for the
purpose of building on current faculty training to highlight key challenges and concerns in
promoting diversity and to illustrate ways of incorporating an understanding of cultural
inclusivity in the classroom and beyond. Despite having as a priority of the overall ECC Strategic
Plan to promote diversity and advance opportunities for marginalized students, achieving these
goals in the day-to-day classroom is harder to accomplish. Our student body is diverse along
many lines, including race, ethnicity, age, religion, and previous college experience. We also
have a large contingency of non-traditional students. Too, many of our students are working
parents, first-generation, full-time employees, immigrants, English-language learners, and
more. All of these demographic characteristics combine into a very diverse campus, which
makes the need for strong cultural competency and inclusivity paramount. The goal of this
TIDE program is to assist in developing a training framework and resources aimed at preparing
faculty to intentionally create culturally responsive classrooms and curriculum. This will include
both internally and externally developed content. The TIDE program will move faculty beyond
awareness to action: incorporating specific strategies for enhancing ones’ own cultural
competence and then addressing how equity and inclusion play out in the classroom.
During Fall 2019, TIDE piloted a series of introductory equity-minded pedagogy workshops with
faculty in the English Department (based on scheduling availability and expressed interest). The
five sessions consisted of:
1. Introduction to TIDE, starting conversations, language, self-awareness, etc.
2. Belongingness
3. Culturally Responsive Assessment
4. Culturally Responsive Syllabi
5. Reflections – Focus Group
The first four sessions have been approved by the CETL Advisory Committee to award CETL lane
movement credit.
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