ACCT Equity Award
ACCT Awards
ACCT Association-Level Charles Kennedy Equity Award and ACCT Regional Equity Awards
This award recognizes exemplary commitment by a community, technical or junior college governing board and its chief executive officer as a group, an individual trustee, or a trustee and chief executive officer to achieve equity in the college’s education programs and services and in the administration and delivery of those programs and services.
The award honors the late Charles Kennedy, a trustee of Joliet Junior College in Illinois, who was a founder of the ACCT Minority Affairs Assembly, which became the ACCT Diversity Committee.
ELIGIBILITY
Any governing board and chief executive officer, or an individual trustee or a trustee and president of an ACCT
member two-year post-secondary institution board or state board for two-year postsecondary institutions is eligible to receive this award.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT ELIGIBILITY: The ACCT Board of Directors and Diversity Committee would like to remind ACCT members that the terms "equity" and "diversity" may apply to many different populations , depending upon a college’s service district. The intent of the Equity Awards is to highlight and promote efforts that serve any and all underrepresented and disadvantaged groups within a college’s population. ACCT encourages all members to nominate any program that serves any currently underrepresented population.
CRITERIA
Demonstrable evidence of leadership in setting policies, championing an environment of inclusiveness, and in assuring results for the enhancement and expansion of opportunities for minorities and women in such areas as:
- Enrollment (i.e., Growth in a diverse student population.)
- Successful completion (i.e., Offer an environment for minority students to be successful.)
- Participation in better-paying, higher-mobility college majors (i.e.,Curriculum offerings, partnerships/articulation agreements and/or financial assistance.)
- Campus environment (i.e., How are you meeting the needs of a diverse student population?)
- Employment and promotion (i.e.,Commit to employing a diverse staff; provide resources and an environment for all students to succeed.)
- Involvement of college in minority community (i.e., Outreach to a diverse community.)
- Representation of board of trustees,committee, and advisory groups of the college (i.e., Actively seek diverse representation.)
- Contracting and vendor participation with the college. (i.e., actively seek diverse representation.)