About RSSC
Our Story
RSSC was founded in 2019 by Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud, drawing on her years as a community college chancellor, college president and faculty member. From that seat, she saw how often facilities planning, equal employment opportunity training, and equity work were handled as three separate functions. They were good-faith efforts, each one, but housed in different departments, on different timelines, without a shared framework connecting them. She also saw what became possible when they were brought together instead: buildings shaped by the people who actually use them, EEO training that shifts culture, and equity initiatives that take root and outlast any single consultant's engagement. RSSC was built to bring these three areas together as one firm with one integrated framework, held by people who have actually run the institutions they now advise.
Why We Exist
RSSC partners with organizations to bring community-centered, restorative practice, and data-informed frameworks to every engagement. Our work is concentrated in three strategic areas: Community-Centered Facilities Planning, RSSC Learning (asynchronous EEO training), and DEIA+ Professional Development. These are the three levers that determine whether people can thrive, succeed, and belong inside an institution. A campus can be beautifully designed and still exclude the people who use it every day. A workforce can be technically compliant and still be inequitable. A DEIA initiative can be well-intentioned and still fail without governance behind it. Doing any one of these well requires deep fluency in all three. That combined fluency, not any single service line, is what sets RSSC apart.
What Makes RSSC Different
No other firm brings this exact combination to the table: rigorous racial and diversity literacy, executive experience actually leading education institutions, hands-on expertise in facilities and capital projects, working knowledge of higher education governance, and a disciplined practice of equity-centered community engagement. Most consultancies are strong in one or two of these lanes. RSSC was built at the intersection of all five, because the problems our clients face don't arrive in neat categories. A facilities bond measure is also a governance question. A hiring process is also an equity question. A training mandate is also a trust-building question. By concentrating our expertise rather than diluting it across every possible service, we're able to create the deepest, most lasting impact for organizations across every sector and for the people they serve.
Our Commitment
Every engagement starts with the same premise: institutions change when the people inside them are seen, heard, and structurally accounted for. RSSC brings the technical rigor, the lived executive experience, and the equity lens to make that change durable, not performative. That's the work, and it's the only way we know how to do it.
