Organizational Values
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Students Are Our Highest Priority (serving to promote student success for all students)
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Touching the Spirit (using a holistic approach to reach each student—Body, Mind, and Spirit)
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Building Community (creating an environment that encourages students to be accountable to each other’s learning)
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Connections to the African Diaspora (expanding students' cultural awareness of the diaspora and articulating their place in that experience)
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Ethic of Love (expressing compassion and care in the learning community)
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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Practices (developing curriculum relevant to the students’ lives for learning)
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Ritual (engaging in cultural practices rooted in African traditions to strengthen the community and the people within the community)
Organizing Principles
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Shares a name with a core set of pedagogies and promising practices
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Supports the academic success of all students
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Supports the persistence and retention of all students toward defined educational goals: transfer, certificate, associate degree
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Integrates both instructional and student services
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Integrates direct instruction of information and technology literacy
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Integrates sound assessment strategies and a set of core benchmark measures; includes recruitment and regular training of students, staff and faculty through seminars, conferences, and other professional development
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Facilitates the sharing of resources: financial, curriculum, methodologies, pedagogies
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Commits to collaborating with campuses at a local level so that there is integration of the core Umoja Community with each individual college mission, goals, strategic plan and student equity efforts
Umoja Board Adopted Strategic Plan (3-23-17)