Council on Innovation, Belonging and Equity
What is CIBE ?
The Council on Innovation, Belonging and Equity (CIBE) is a shared governance body that was established in 2021, through Board Action 5378. The purpose of this body is to permeate completion, equity, inclusion, and belonging throughout Delta College’s activities and culture and to assist in the assurance that the Diversity, Equity, Belonging and Inclusion framework is being fully implemented. An additional purpose of the CIBE is to foster collaboration and creativity to reduce opportunity gaps across the College body.
In Delta College’s model of shared governance, institutional and policy decisions are made from well-informed recommendations, ideally reached through consensus among stakeholders. The CIBE Advisory Board directs relevant institutional issues or concerns to the appropriate group for thorough examination. Committees (standing or ad hoc) may make recommendations to the CIBE Advisory Board for action based upon supporting rationale and data. Throughout the process, open and respectful communication ensures participation by all affected parties.
Advisory board meetings and how people can attend
CIBE advisory board meetings are open meetings; however, there may be certain topics during which the CIBE advisory board will need to meet in closed session.
If interested in attending a CIBE advisory board meeting, please contact Sheryl Jensen for the Zoom link.
Fall 2026 meetings
- Wednesday, September 9, 2pm
- Wednesday, October 14, 2pm
- Wednesday, November 11, 2pm
- Wednesday, December 9, 2pm
CIBE members (voting members)
- CIBE chair
Chris Hausbeck (term ending 12/2027) - ECAPS chair/designee
Rachel Chaltraw/designee (term ending 12/2027) - Administrative/Professional staff at large (2 elected by AP, 1 SES and 1 non-SES)
Monica Hernandez-Alaniz (term ending 12/2027) and Craig Wilson (term ending 12/2028) - Faculty Assembly Board (FAB) Co-chairs (only one vote for Co-chairs)
Christine Yaroch and Kendra Rogers (term ending 12/2027) - Faculty at large (2 elected by the faculty)
Meredith Nixon (term ending 12/2026) and Amber Sleight (term ending 12/2027) - SSEC chair/designee
Sean Hill/designee (term ending 12/2026) - Support Staff at large (2 elected by support staff, 1 non-SES and 1 SES)
Loni Benkert (term ending 12/2027) and Traci Morris (term ending 12/2026) - Adjunct Faculty
Christina Szilagyi (annual reaffiirmation) - Public Safety designee
Robert Battinkoff (annual reaffiirmation) - Maintenance designee
Vacant
Ex-officio CIBE members (non-voting members)
- College President (or designee)
Dr. Michelle Allmendinger - Belonging, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (BEDI) designee
Chris DeEulis - CIBE Chair Emeritus
Elena Lazzari (term ending 12/2026) - Shared Governance Office Professional
Sheryl Jensen
Standing Committee – Pedagogy
Charge: To foster learning environments characterized by innovation, a sense of BEDI by exploring and encouraging pedagogical best practices that recognize and address differences amongst students.
- Danielle Petersen, co-chair
- Kim Boldt, co-chair
Standing Committee – Policies & Processes
Charge: To identify and review policies and processes that may contain barriers to success both for students and employees from a completion, inclusion, belonging, and equity lens.
- Kim Katzer, Co-chair
- Eric Wiesenauer, Co-chair
Adhoc Committees
Committee 1- Charge completed
Policy name: Disputed Final Grades
Committee 2
Proposal name: Update to Board Policy 10.012 – Academic Graduation/Certification Requirements
Date of charge: April 21, 2025
To: Kim Katzer, Chair of Policies and Processes committee and Elena Lazzari (former co-chair of the P & P committee)
Charge: Please perform a thorough review of the Academic Graduation/Certification Board Policy, looking at this through an equity lens from the student and faculty viewpoints. Part III of the existing policy outlines the procedure for revising general education curricular requirements. Update the language to reflect current titles/roles at Delta College, and discuss the membership of the ad hoc committee in IIIC (is this appropriate?). The Advisory Board is recommending an ad hoc committee be formed with representation from the Policies and Processes committee. We would like the ad hoc committee to discuss/consider separating the procedure from the policy (but still reference the procedure if the committee deems it best to separate these). We are also suggesting a clarifying statement around the AAA, AAS, AFA, and ABS requirements – who determines these degree requirements and how are they changed/revised?
While doing this work, please be in regular communication with the curriculum council ad hoc committee that will begin its work in Fall 2025.
Proposed timeline and rounds: Begin this work in Fall 2025 and make an effort to finish by the end of Winter 2026. Take the proposed changes to Faculty Assembly for input prior to bringing the policy back to CIBE before going to the Board of Trustees.
Committee 3 – Charge completed
Proposal name: Student Success Modules
Committee 4 - Charge completed
Policy/Request Name: Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills and resources
Committee 5
Title of request: Analysis of interventions for students in academic caution/probation.
Date of charge: November 12, 2025
To: Student Educational Services (SES); Shelly Raube, Vice President of Student Empowerment and Success
Charge:
1. Assess the effectiveness of the current communication, intervention, and follow-up
process for students
on academic caution and/or probation. Recommend consistency guidelines for advisors
(e.g. required
interventions, timing, follow-up). Discuss pros and cons of enforcing academic suspension.
2. Explore and propose new support structures, including targeted interventions,
academic recovery
coaching, faculty engagement, etc. for students on academic caution and/or probation.
Rationale: Delta’s current Academic Caution and Academic Probation (AC/AP) process, outlined
here,
has been in place for years. Despite the current structured intervention process,
data indicates limited
improvement in student outcomes for students on academic caution or probation. Academic
suspension
is outlined in the policy but has not been enforced in over five years. This charge
is for an ad hoc
committee to evaluate our Academic Caution and Probation process to ensure students
facing academic
challenges receive meaningful, personalized, and effective support. The outcome of
the committee’s work
should be to recommend targeted supports and interventions for students on Caution
or Probation, and to
recommend consistency guidelines for advisors. Finally, the committee should make
a recommendation
to keep (and enforce) academic suspension, or to remove this from the policy altogether.
The ad hoc committee membership should be finalized by the end of the Fall 2025 semester
and should
begin its work in January 2026.
