At Cabrillo College near Santa Cruz, Nikia Chaney stands out. You can spot her bright pink hair from a distance. She’s also the only Black professor out of the community college’s 165 tenured or tenure-track faculty.
At Woodland Community College, according to information from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, in the fall of 2022, there were six teachers of Asian descent, three Latinos, and 26 white instructors. There were no American Indian or Alaskan Natives, Blacks, or Pacific Islander teachers.
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“Progress remains slow,” according to a recent report on faculty diversity at California’s community colleges. For Nikia Chaney, the sole full-time Black faculty member at Cabrillo College, the experience is personal.