An award for a student, employee, or group initiating and leading action to eliminate equity gaps for disproportionately impacted people and communities.

Criteria for this award:

• Acts as a role model or ally in championing equity issues.
• Creates an inclusive culture by challenging race inequalities/barriers.
• Takes steps to eliminate or reduce incidents of bullying, harassment or discrimination against disproportionately impacted people.
• Leads positive actions or interventions to close equity gaps enable all members of our campus communities to realize their full potential.
• Applies evidence and student insight to tackle issues effectively to improve service user experience.
• Interventions demonstrate positive outcomes for the college campus, with the potential for scaling up for other parts of the campus and community services.

An award for a community business, agency, or partner who has intentionally provided resources and support to the campus in sustaining  the College’s mission, vision, and values related to diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Criteria for this award:

• Provides opportunities to students, employees, or campus constituencies to support diversity, inclusion, and equity.
• Develops relationships with the campus to share insight or services to address campus inequity or disparities.
• Implements innovative approaches to address a critical need and/or particularly vulnerable campus group.
• Devoted resources to equity, diversity, and/or inclusion efforts on the Cerritos College campus or broader community.

Criteria for this award:

• Invites speakers or designs events that promote increasing diversity or cross cultural communication.
• Creates events that provide extra-curricular dialogue designed to improve people's cultural awareness and sensitivity about emerging national or global issues.
• Takes a proactive role in educating the campus community on matters of inequity or disparities.
• Promotes cross-cultural connections and self-discovery.
• Offers programming to help the campus community learn more about practical ways to enhance equity, diversity, and/or inclusion.

 
Criteria for this award:

• Acts as a role model or ally in championing disability inclusion.
• Creates an inclusive culture by challenging disability inequalities/barriers/bias in the application of people management policies, for example inclusive recruitment, talent development, performance management, career development, promotion and implementing appropriate, high quality and cost effective workplace adjustments or in a student service delivery.
• Takes steps to eliminate or reduce incidents of bullying, harassment or discrimination against disabled employees, students, and/or service users.
• Leads positive actions or interventions to enable talented employees and students with a disability to realize their full potential.
• Applies evidence and insight to tackle issues effectively to improve the overall employee or student experience.
• Interventions demonstrate positive outcomes for the college campus, with the potential for scaling up for other parts of the campus and community services. 

 
Criteria for this award:

• Empowers and supports its members to realize their full potential.
• Applies evidence and student insight to tackle issues effectively.
• Helps deepen understanding between different diversity groups and how opportunities and challenges may intersect.
• Collaborates with others to innovate and develop workable solutions.
• Advocate for transformational change that address root causes of inequities.
• Interventions demonstrate innovative and positive outcomes for the college campus, with the potential for scaling up for other parts of the campus and community services.

An award for a student, employee, or group initiating and leading action to remove barriers and improve the campus experience and engagement levels of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning people, or demonstrating excellence in the delivery of services to LGBTQ+ people.

 Criteria for this award:

• Acts as a role model or ally in championing LGBTQ+ issues.
• Creates an inclusive culture by challenging sexual orientation or gender identity inequalities/barriers/bias. 
• Takes steps to eliminate or reduce incidents of bullying, harassment or discrimination against the LGBTQ+ campus community.
• Leads positive actions or interventions to enable talented LGBTQ+ employees and students to realize their full potential.
• Applies evidence and customer insight to tackle issues effectively to improve service user experience
• Interventions demonstrate positive outcomes for the college campus services.

An award for students (individual or group) who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to advocacy for the campus community and raising awareness of diversity, inclusion, and equity in innovative ways. 

Criteria for this award:

• Acts as a role model or ally in advocating for diversity efforts.
• Creates an inclusive culture by actively engaging on-campus and in the community to support diversity and inclusion.
• Leads and inspire others to realize their full potential.
• Take steps to increase cultural awareness and positive change on campus.