CEO Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce (AFHAT)

In Spring 2018, the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges (CEOCCC) established the CEO Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce to provide system-wide recommendations to address housing and food insecurities faced daily by our students. This Taskforce will review and discuss research literature, participate in discussions with leading scholars, and hear from students regarding their challenges with housing and hunger.

Real College California Coalition

The Real College California Coalition was created in 2019 to provide the latest evidence, integrated with hands-on guidance to inform implementation and help members develop a cutting-edge mindset to increase their institutional effectiveness and strengthen California’s ecosystems to support students’ basic needs and promote college completion.

Today, more than 100 colleges are part of the Real College California Coalition and have been able to:

  • Use data to inform basic needs programming and effective interventions
  • Implement strategies to support students with equitable emergency aid models (doubling graduation rates)
  • Strategize to develop innovative programs to secure housing, maximize the implementation of one-stop centers, and leverage funding opportunities
  • Build internal capacity to respond to the ecosystem nuances, enhancing the operationalization of programs designed to support students

The Real College California Coalition offers support for incubating, implementing, and assessing equity-based solutions and support services to address basic needs insecurities experienced by students in California’s community colleges. Member institutions receive help building internal capacity and gaining tools to impact institutional transformation through advocacy, professional development, and elevating best practices and research.

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Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce Members

  • Tammeil Gilkerson, Chancellor, Peralta CCD (chair)
  • Dorothy Battenfeld, Trustee, Santa Rosa Junior College
  • Keith Curry, President/CEO, Compton College
  • Colleen Ganley, Basic Needs Specialist, Chancellor’s Office
  • Adrienne Grey, Trustee, West Valley-Mission CCD
  • Ashanti Hands, President, San Diego Mesa College
  • John Hernandez, President, Irvine Valley College
  • Andra Hoffman, Trustee, LACCD
  • Rebekah Kalleen, Executive Director, Community College Facility Coalition
  • Timothy Karas, Superintendent/President, Mendocino Lake CCD
  • Torence Powell, Superintendent/President, Napa Valley College
  • James Preston, President, Lemoore College
  • Diana Rodriguez, Chancellor, San Bernardino CCD