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Project Title:VETEA-Special Project, Vocational Education/Gender Equality Grant
Project Director: Dr. Fay Freeman
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760)245-4271,ext.2414

The Victor Valley College Gender Equity Project is designed to encourage and serve greater nontraditional enrollments, and provide awareness
and sensitiity training to faculty and staff to assure that nontraditional students receive the greatest ammount of support to increase their chances
for success in a quality, inclusive, and diverse workplace capable of meeting the challenge of global competition. This project has two major
constituencies: students and faculty/staff.

The project will address these objectives:

1.     To change biased, stereotyped perceptions and attitudes through appriciation of the benefits of gender equity including provision of role
        models for all students and enrichment of campus dialogue.

2.     To develop two brochures published in English and Spanish for recruitment/outreach of males/females in nontraditional programs.

3.     To foster institutional climate climate by providing a learning and work place free of sexual harassment and barriers through awareness
        and sensitivity training for faculty and staff.

Project activities that will accomplish the above objectives are: development of Women's Speaker Bureau, development of Women's Week/
Diversity Week, classroom presentations, orientation, advertisements, development of Spanish/English brochures, career video presentation,
sexual harassment training, workshop on Glass Ceiling Iniative, anddevelopment of training process video.

The project will be evaluated on the basis of achievement of above objectives. We plan to enroll 30 new vocational students and graduate
70 percent. We plan to attract non-traditional students into our vocational programs. We plan to provide sexual harrassment and gender
equity training for 80 faculty/staff.