Student Equity Plan
The El Camino College (ECC) Student Equity Plan (SEP) was designed to advance the college’s mission of providing excellent comprehensive educational programs and services that promote student learning and success in collaboration with our diverse communities.
Student Equity Plan Executive Summary
El Camino College’s 2025–2028 Student Equity Plan is an ambitious, equity-driven initiative designed to address persistent disparities in student success across critical outcomes, particularly for African American/Black students and other disproportionately impacted (DI) groups.
The plan targets key student achievement metrics: successful enrollment, completion of transfer-level Math and English, persistence, certificate/degree completion, and transfer to four-year institutions. The identified student groups include African American/Black students, low-income adults, veterans, foster youth, justice-impacted students, and students with disabilities.
Goals have been established to eliminate disproportional impact and fully close equity gaps by 2028. These include increasing the enrollment yield to 39%, ensuring more students complete transfer-level Math and English in their first year, and increasing persistence and completion rates—particularly among DI groups.
El Camino also aims to increase the number of Associate Degrees for Transfer (ADTs) and to strengthen transfer pathways, especially to CSU, UC, and HBCUs. To achieve these goals, the college has outlined several strategic initiatives. These include:
- (1) equity-minded training for faculty
- (2) scaling cohort-style supports
- (3) expanding targeted outreach and dual enrollment
- (4) improving real-time, disaggregated data tracking for early intervention, and
- (5) enhancing wraparound services such as mental health support, food security, and culturally affirming programming
These efforts are reinforced by structural strategies like embedding counselors and tutors in meta-majors, expanding Credit for Prior Learning, increasing work-based learning opportunities, and aligning course offerings with degree requirements.
View Student Equity PlanPrevious Plans
- 2019-2020 Equity Plan Executive Summary
- 2017-2019 Integrated Plan: BSI, SE, and SSSP (.pdf)
- Student Equity Plan 2017- 2018 Executive Summary (.pdf)
- Student Equity Plan 2015 - 2016 (.pdf)