College Futures Foundation awarded USC a generous grant to advance racial equity across California’s community colleges. One key aspect of this investment entails assembling deeply experienced equity experts to author Research in Translation Reports and also a series of 3-4 page Solutions Briefs intended to be concise responses to racial equity questions submitted by community college employees. Downloadable PDFs of the briefs and reports will be uploaded to this site to allow open access to these resources. 

While credible research undergirds them, the briefs outline highly accessible concepts while avoiding unnecessarily academic language to provide insightful observations and practical solutions to pressing racial equity problems or everyday challenges. Each brief will include succinct recommendations focused on practice, including guidelines describing existing pitfalls, initial steps for introducing change, and exemplary practices in classrooms, hiring, programs, services, and college planning processes. 

A set of Solutions Briefs will be released approximately every other month in a cluster of 5-6 briefs connected by a unifying theme to comprehensively address a single racial equity challenge from multiple perspectives.