New leadership position will help steer ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts at the college. Front Range Community College has hired Abenicio Rael, M.Ed., to be the school’s first executive director of equity and inclusion. “Creating this new position will sharpen FRCC’s focus on our goals of inclusive excellence, educational equity and advancing opportunity for all,” […]
Most of us are eager to leave the last year far behind—and 2021 isn’t showing much improvement so far. But there are some important lessons we’ve learned from the events of 2020, and Martin Luther King Day seems an appropriate time to reflect on those. As FRCC’s president Andy Dorsey wrote to students over the […]
Back-to-school season is looking very different for children—and their parents—in 2020. And for parents who are also students themselves, this fall is looking particularly complicated. Many school districts throughout the state are starting the semester with online classes only—or offering an online option for families who prefer it. Front Range Community College (FRCC), along with […]
Dear FRCC Community, I have written to you several times over the last couple of months about COVID-19, and how the college is responding to keep you safe. That has been challenging enough, but this is an even harder message to write. The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and many more are […]
In honor of Martin Luther King Day this year, let’s take a few minutes to focus on equity in education. Looking back, you can read excerpts below from a few historical documents related to desegregating schools—including Dr. King’s own words on the subject. Looking forward, there’s still work to be done to achieve educational equity. […]
Xicana/o, Latina/o, Afro-Latina/o, Asian-Latina/o and Indigenous. Are all of these identities adequately recognized by Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) in September? Does it exclude the many Mestizos living in the diaspora for two or three generations, who no longer speak their native tongues? Does the term need to be updated to Latinx Heritage Month to include […]
