Online Learning

The mission of Foothill College reflects our institution-wide commitment to ensuring all students reach their full potential. We recognize that long-standing forms of institutionalized marginalization continue to negatively affect our students’ success and retention and that these can manifest in our online course design, teaching practices, and learning support services. As individuals within our institution, each of us must take an active role in dismantling these structural inequities in our classes.

To that end, we have developed this Online Equity Affirmation to support efforts to promote online learning that is socially just. We call particular attention to the roles of racism and socioeconomic disparity, as these are two of the biggest contributors to online equity gaps. These forms of marginalization often intersect, but not always, and as we seek to address them, it is essential that we avoid conflating the two. The affirmation presents a series of overarching principals and their corresponding equity challenges and anti-racism strategies to address them.

Read the entire affirmation here: Online Equity Affirmation document