Meets second and fourth Wednesdays, 2 pm
Charge
Committee within PGS
The Guidance, Resources, Integration, and Transformation (GRIT) Committee operates in collaboration with PRAC and the Academic Senate to support College of Marin's commitment to providing equitable opportunities and fostering success for all members of our diverse community. GRIT reviews institutional plans, program reviews, and data to ensure that antiracist practices, equity, and access are embedded in all plans and programs and that resources and efforts support overall student success.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Review and assess the integration of internal and external research and promising antiracist and equity practices across programs with regard to student access, retention, success, and completion.
- Identify, promote, and disseminate information on exemplary programs and effective instructional practices that address learning, innovative online tools and modalities, antiracism, antiblackness, and that best serve historically underrepresented community college students, including credit and noncredit ESL students.
- Assess and respond to the impact of state and/or national emergencies and systemic racism on student access, retention, success, and completion.
- Support faculty and staff professional development and innovative instructional strategies aligned with effective learning and teaching, antiracism, and dismantling antiblackness.
- Provide progress reports in accordance with the Chancellor’s Office guidelines to local and statewide stakeholders.
Composition
- Minimum 4 Faculty appointed by the Academic Senate
- Minimum 4 Classified Professionals appointed by the Classified Professional Liaison Committee (CPLC)
- Minimum 2 Administrators appointed by the Superintendent/President
- Minimum 2 Students appointed by Associated Students of College of Marin (ASCOM)
The GRIT Committee make-up will be members who represent the following:
- Math (Faculty)
- English Skills (Faculty)
- ESL (Faculty)
- Counseling/Learning Communities (Faculty)
- Administrative Dean
- PRIE
- Students
- EOPS
- Equity Coordinator/Student Activities and Advocacy
- Student Accessibility Services
- Outreach
- Veterans
- Enrollment Services
- CTE/Strong Workforce
2024-2025 Members
Chair
Tonya Hersch, Educational Success Programs
Faculty
Gina Cullen, Counseling
Carl Freschl, Counselor, Student Accessibility Services
Amy Loewen, College Skills, ESL
Classified Professionals
Nequeshe Dyer, Learning Communities
Tanya Paredes, Workforce Development
Zachary Rowson, Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectivenes
Brier Welch, International Office
Students
Administrators
Tonya Hersch, Educational Success Programs
Jon Horinek, Enrollment Management
Staff Resources
Melanie Palomino, Educational Success & Instruction
Julian Solis, School and Community Partnerships
Holley Shafer, Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness
Sadika Sulaiman Hara, Activities & Advocacy
Cari Torres Benavides, Instruction
Updated 05-26-2021