AFT 2121's Affirmative Action Task Force
In Spring 2018, at the behest of the union’s then-newly elected Treasurer Yvonne Webb, AFT 2121’s Executive Board voted to create the Diversity Task Force. Our name has since changed to the Affirmative Action Task Force (AATF).
We seek to address the culture of white supremacy and to dismantle racism at our college. We seek to combat systemic and institutional trends that inhibit the hiring and retention of African-American, Native-American, and Latino and Latina faculty at City College of San Francisco and leadership roles at AFT 2121.
Our first project was to collect and present data on the experiences of African American, Native American, and Latino/Latina faculty in our campus community. We engaged Professor Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin, former chair of African-American Studies at City College of San Francisco and now a graduate student of history at Stanford University, to project manage a needs assessment survey and focus group, to summarize survey findings, and to write a needs assessment report.
Ms. Dunn-Salahuddin’s report, A College Within a College: Institutional Racism & the Disparity of African-American, Native-American, and Latino/a Faculty at City College of San Francisco, a collaboration with the Affirmative Action Task Force, was accepted by the Executive Board in Fall 2019. A summary of the report is here.
We seek to address the culture of white supremacy and to dismantle racism at our college. We seek to combat systemic and institutional trends that inhibit the hiring and retention of African-American, Native-American, and Latino and Latina faculty at City College of San Francisco and leadership roles at AFT 2121.
Our first project was to collect and present data on the experiences of African American, Native American, and Latino/Latina faculty in our campus community. We engaged Professor Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin, former chair of African-American Studies at City College of San Francisco and now a graduate student of history at Stanford University, to project manage a needs assessment survey and focus group, to summarize survey findings, and to write a needs assessment report.
Ms. Dunn-Salahuddin’s report, A College Within a College: Institutional Racism & the Disparity of African-American, Native-American, and Latino/a Faculty at City College of San Francisco, a collaboration with the Affirmative Action Task Force, was accepted by the Executive Board in Fall 2019. A summary of the report is here.