About Us

Diversity and Inclusion Mission Statement

Through campus and community engagement, COCC’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion fosters equity and cultural understanding, promotes a respectful learning and work environment that supports student success, and provides culturally relevant assistance to current and prospective under-represented and under-served students.

Diversity and Inclusion has the following main responsibilities:

• The recruitment and retention (student success) of under-represented and under-served students with a focus on Native American and Latinx high school and college students. The Native American and Latinx Program Coordinators provide personal advising, academic coaching, and cultural culturally relevant support to college students.  The Latinx College Preparation Program Coordinator teaches ¡Avanza! and the Native American College Preparation Program Coordinator teaches The Good Road which are both classes for high school students to bolster their aspirations to graduate from high school and consider higher education.  All of the staff plan the summer leadership symposiums or summer bridge activities that promote going to college and succeeding academically.
• The development and implementation of multicultural education and training, including workshops, speakers, dialogues, films, etc. Activities include:  Latinx Heritage Month, Native American Heritage Month, Black History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Season of Nonviolence, Safe Zone workshops, Culturally Respectful Hiring Workshops, Allies for Equity series, and other programs that educate the campus and community on all aspects of cultural awareness and understanding.
• The promotion of a respectful and equitable campus learning and work environment in accordance with the Principles of Community. The Diversity Committee, in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, advances the work to ensure that COCC fosters respect, equity, and inclusion.  Every three years, a Campus Climate Survey asks students to report on how comfortable and respected they believe the College to be.

Diversity and Inclusion Staff	Location
Christy Walker Director of Diversity and Inclusion	Coats Campus Center Room 216 541-383-7412
Marcus LeGrand Coordinator of the Afrocentric Student and College Prep Program	Ochoco Hall Room 213 541-330-4376
Jacqueline Ruggieri Coordinator of the Latinx Students Program	Coats Campus Center Room 106A 541-318-3726
Claudia Bisso-Fetzer, Ph.D   Coordinator of ¡AVANZA! and Ganas,  Latinx College Preparation Program	Ochoco Hall Room 215 541-318-3717
Jackie Currie Coordinator of The Good Road and STRIVE, Native American College Preparation Program	Ochoco Hall Room 211 541-330-4369
Jeremiah Rector Coordinator of the Native American Program	Coats Campus Center Room 106B 541-318-3782