FIN Commons

As the Faculty Inquiry Network moves forward into the Fall and beyond you may want to spend some time catching up with progress made by FIN teams across the state. Click on a team to view their Mid-term Inquiry Update Videos. Happy inquiry!

• College of Alameda
• Berkeley City College
• Cerritos College
• East Los Angeles College
• Fresno City College
• Glendale Community College
• Laney College
• Las Positas College
• Los Angeles Trade Technical Community College
• Los Medanos College / English
• Los Medanos / Puente / Carnegie Foundation
• Los Medanos / San Diego City / Umoja
• Mt. San Antonio College
• San Diego Mesa College
• Santa Ana College
• Santa Barbara City College
• College of the Siskiyous
• Skyline College

The Umoja Community will be holding a conference November 5-7, 2009. Tom deWit, our FIN Co-director, also serves as the Co-director of Umoja. Umoja is an amazing community that is  commited to enriching and fostering the educational experience of all students especially African American students. FIN wants to inform you about this conference because it is one that individuals or teams could benefit from. Please share the information about this conference to anyone you think might be interested in attending.

To find out more about the Umoja community and the Umoja V Conference visit their website http://voyager.dvc.edu/umoja/

As the Umoja Community claims its space on campuses across the

state, it does so “in community.” Acting in community, we will continue

to put a way into no way. Without permission or money we

come together again, vowing to help each other be bigger than ourselves.

Our survival, as a movement, depends on our continuing in

Indaba, looking deeper at ourselves so we know the difference

between the no ways of the system and the ways we need to serve

our students successfully. Join us “in community” at Umoja V.

Hello Finners,

FIN home team came across an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Mike Rose titled Colleges Need to Re-Mediate Remediation and thought our teams could benefit from taking a glance at it. The Chronicle gave us a five day pass to read this article for free so check it out soon. Last day to view it is 09/13/2009. 

Click here to read the Mike Rose article