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The California Community Colleges Women's Caucus (CCCWC) aims to unify and support women from across California Community Colleges while identifying unique opportunities to strengthen student, faculty, and employee success in our system.
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Purpose | Vision | Commitments
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The CCCWC advocates for change and policies that will advance opportunities and achieve equity for women across California Community Colleges.
CCCWC commits to:
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Leadership
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Andra Hoffman was elected to the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Board of Trustees in March of 2015 and was elected President of the Board on July 10, 2019. The Los Angeles Community College District is among the largest Districts in the Country, representing over 250,000 students, nine community colleges, and serving students from 40 cities. For over twenty years, Trustee Hoffman has served students at Glendale Community College, overseeing the Career and Transfer Centers. In this job, she has helped hundreds of students successfully complete their degree and facilitated the launch of their careers with job placement services.
As a defender and advocate for women’s causes, Trustee Hoffman is a past President of the National Women’s Political Caucus of the San Fernando Valley, where she continues to mentor and support young women and girls. Her leadership of women’s causes has been recognized by her peers on the LACCD Board. Hoffman was most recently, appointed to serve as the Chair of the Sexual Harassment/Title IX Task Force. |
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Dr. Rowena Tomaneng as over 27 years of administrative and teaching experience in higher education and currently serves as the President of San José City College (SJCC) in the San José Evergreen Community College District (SJECCD). She has worked to develop innovative partnerships that provide academic and career education pathways for the diverse student populations of SJCC and SJCC’s Milpitas Extension. With Dr. Tomaneng’s leadership, SJCC secured several Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) federal grants to increase Latinx student success and establish a Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program.
Dr. Tomaneng has also expanded several student success pathway programs including The San José Promise, The Milpitas Promise and Middle College Program, and Dual Enrollment across several unified school districts. To support students facing the basic needs crisis, Dr. Tomaneng launched a free tuition and zero student fees campaign in spring 2022 for all SJCC students taking six or more units. This campaign is joined with emergency grants, technology and equipment loans, food resources through the Jaguar Market and Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, mental health counseling, and housing resources. A first generation immigrant from the Philippines and community college transfer student, Dr. Tomaneng earned her Ed.D. in International and Multicultural Education, Human Rights Concentration from the University of San Francisco, M.A. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and B.A. in English from the University of California, Irvine. |