WHY RSSC LEARNING
The people who choose your colleagues shape your students' experience.
Our institutions were shaped by a long history of who was welcomed and who was kept at the margins. That history did not disappear when the doors opened wider. It lives on in the quiet assumptions we carry into a screening room, in the coded language of who seems like a good fit, and in the outcomes our students experience long after a hiring decision is made.
RSSC Learning exists to interrupt that pattern with knowledge, reflection, and practice. We do not offer a compliance checkbox. We offer a learning experience that helps the people who serve on hiring and screening committees fulfill their legal responsibilities with confidence while developing the self awareness and cultural humility that fair processes require.
When the people who choose your colleagues learn to recognize the difference between merit and familiarity, your whole institution moves closer to the workforce your students deserve.
EXPLORE
Three ways to learn more
Everything you need to understand the offering, and one conversation away from bringing it home.
HOW IT SERVES YOUR INSTITUTION
Built to reach the commitments you have already made.
Your equity commitments
Your student equity plan names the outcomes you are working toward. This training reaches one of the most consequential levers you have: who gets hired to serve your students.
Your students' success
When students see themselves reflected in the people who teach and serve them, they persist, they engage, and they thrive. Hiring is where that mirror is built.
Your compliance responsibilities
Federal law, state law, and Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations set expectations for non discriminatory, fair, and effective hiring. This course helps your committees carry them out with confidence.
Your people's growth
Participants leave with a greater sense of self agency to navigate the power and status dynamics of hiring in higher education, and with concrete practices they can use.
LEARNER OUTCOME
What participants can do when they finish
✓ Confidently fulfill their responsibilities as Equal Employment Opportunity representatives.
✓ Cultivate confidence and self agency to navigate the power and status dynamics common in higher education.
✓ Use their position of influence to interrupt inequitable, discriminatory, and exclusionary practices.
✓ Apply what they have learned and engage as effective screening committee members.
✓ Describe what culture, cultural competence, and cultural humility mean to them, with examples from their own work.
✓ Reflect on how bias and microaggressions can affect belonging, and respond more inclusively.
Select culturally responsive practices and name a concrete next step to continue their growth.
Students thrive when they are seen. Fair and culturally competent hiring builds the community of educators who make that experience possible.
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MEET THE LEADS
Rigorous, warm, and unflinching.
This work is led by scholars and practitioners who have lived the questions they teach.
Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud
Her scholarship is grounded in critical race theory, educational leadership, and human resources management, drawing on more than thirty five years as a faculty member and administrator in higher education.
Dr. Nicole Kelly
She brings deep experience in equity centered practice and professional learning, helping the people who serve students grow their cultural competence, cultural fluency, and cultural humility.
Together they create a learning experience that gives permission to be imperfect while insisting that we keep growing.