Equity Champions

2025 Equity Champion Awards

This year's Equity Champions will be honored at an event on Wednesday, June 11, from 2-3:30 p.m. in Conference Rooms A&B of the Campus Center.

Please check back for details on how to submit nominations – coming soon!​

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Award Criteria

We recognize that there are multiple ways of demonstrating commitment to these values. The following are examples of ways that nominees may exemplify their commitment to equity:

• Promoting a deeper understanding of equity by advancing best practices in their respective office or program
• Exhibiting leadership qualities in their work through collaboration, courageous conversations, inclusion through an intersectional lens, and fosters accountability.
• Prioritizes student needs and advocates for systemic and institutional change to address them to ensure equitable opportunities.
• Serves as a creative and equity-minded decision-maker in the shared governance process
• Fosters practices that help bridge the student equity gaps

The individual or team being nominated should also embody the spirit and principles reflected in the above criteria.

For more information, please contact Adriana Garcia at EquityOffice@deanza.edu or 408.864.5636.

For more information, please contact EquityOffice@deanza.edu or 408.864.5636.

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