Cabrillo College

Cabrillo College’s IRHL-DLTSS project intends to conduct the following activities: (1) Buildout of up to three (3) Hyflex classroom spaces as pilots for improved classroom learning at the college; (2) Purchase accessibility software to support Cabrillo’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) to support a high number of online courses given the current pandemic and troubleshooting faculty needs related to remediating and creating accessible documents and media as well as hiring additional student helps to help with accessibility remediation support for maintaining course materials, and (3) Hire adjunct faculty to support digital literacy training and to teach credit and noncredit Computer Application/Business Technology (CABT) courses in digital literacy for expansion to Cabrillo students in Watsonville, partner with K-12 school district, Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD), to help connect students into appropriate courses by way of dual enrollment, outreach, and counseling, and hire student assistants for Fall and Spring semesters to connect students with digital literacy training to become more familiar with the technological resources in higher education.

As a result of implementing the project, the completion of upgrades to three classroom with outfitted HyFlex equipment and upgraded wireless integration will enable remote and HyFLex learning, for the most economically vulnerable students will receive laptop/tablets, hotspots, and data plans, instructional faculty will receive training in HyFlex technology use and pedagogy for creating HyFlex instruction courses, knowledge improvement for faculty around the use of HyFlex equipment in classroom environment, Cabrillo College will be allowed to pilot version of professional development in HyFlex to inform future efforts to scale on campus, improvement of faculty knowledge of HyFlex and the ability to redesign their courses around a pedagogy that uses HyFlex to maximize student engagement and learning for in-person and remote students, connect Cabrillo students in Watsonville and Live Oak over the two years to digital literacy courses (noncredit and credit), and faculty will be properly trained in HyFlex to teaches and students.

This project will benefit the college, students, and/or the neighboring community within Watsonville (South Santa Cruz County) and other students in the Live Oak/Beach flats community of Santa Cruz, California by improving the campus-community relationship, increasing the college’s capacity to deliver quality instruction, providing additional accelerated programs for students and/or community members to learn, and increasing entrepreneurial pathways in the community. Overall, the project will close the digital equity gap and promote digital inclusion among low-income and Latino/a/x students.

The recipient does not intend to subaward funds.