Inclusive Educational Communities

MCC supports an integrated learning experience for students with disabilities. This page provides access to each MCC campus's Disability Support Services (DSS) office that provides services for students with documented disabilities. Arrangements can be made for aids and adjustments to help ensure equitable access to MCC's programs and services.
The campus DSS office also has information about the existence and location of services, activities and facilities accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities.

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for Title IX (sex discrimination and sexual harassment) and Title VII (discrimination of protected classes) compliance; OCR is charged with investigating and resolving such complaints.
Additionally, OCR is responsible for community programming efforts across the district.

Resource for constant education and proposed actions to create a more just and equal society.

This resource functions as a digital compendium of pedagogy topics. Links lead to PDFs and online versions of book chapters and articles. Includes articles and blog posts, books, videos, and other web sources. Organized by resource type.

Provides short, targeted tests that can help make the user aware of hidden biases and associations.

A multi-resource tool from Brown University that serves as a great beginner resource with lots of different options. Useful as a reference and starting off point.

Natascha Trellinger Buswell's article about their experience with community pedagogy in STEM coursework.

An overview of the different formats and sources of community resources and where or how to find them. The resources are organized by general type but are not in any particular order within each section.

This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.

White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks. This checklist is a great resource for beginning the process of acknowledging invisible privilege granted to persons and taking accountability.

Created by Dr. Kinitra D. Brooks, University of Texas at San Antonio

Created by the African American Intellectual Historical Society (AAIHS)

Here are some essential readings from several astute activists, journalists and writers that have inspired, angered and challenged readers everywhere this past year

Exhibit at Stanford University Libraries

Community issues have been on the higher education agenda for many years, but recent events have brought the issue into sharper focus. Leading efforts on university campuses is vital work. Join this expert panel to explore how higher education institutions around the world are providing a community environment for all people.

This webinar will focus on community in higher education and their relationship to creating greater access to a college education for disadvantaged populations. Webinar participants will learn about promising practices for creating a campus climate that increases student success.

In schools throughout the nation and the world, what stories are being told, what perspectives are represented, and what voices are included are being reconsidered. It is a period full of new learning and deep debate. As our schools seek to best support all students in their communities, many are engaged in the ongoing and critical work of auditing and revising their curricula. This webinar is a panel discussion with administrators and teachers from NEASC Accredited schools who are rethinking their curriculum through this community lens.

Talk Given By Dr. Alex Madva (Cal State East Bay) on May 6, 2014. The video is broken into two parts; a six-minute introduction and a seventy-eight minute lecture and discussion. Both parts are accessible through the link.

Formed in 1998 as a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote business and cultural relationships among members of the Chamber, local and national corporations, and the general public.

Provides comprehensive assistance to the growth, evolution and professional advancement of Hispanics and other minorities in the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area by collaborating with mutual assistance associations/organizations. Focuses primarily on educational and charitable endeavors.

Mission/Vision of ISGKC is to Live faith as a congregation, inspired by the teachings of the Quran and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as individuals and as a collective body, and to be the anchor of a model community of practicing Muslims of diverse backgrounds, democratically governed, efficiently served, and interacting with neighbors in an Islamic exemplary fashion.

Ensures that all service, activities and programs offered by the City of Kansas City are accessible to all people, including those with disabilities.

Mission is to provide safe LGBTQIA+ community spaces where people can come for education, resources, and activities, as well as support a more cohesive LGBTQIA+ community in the greater Kansas City area.

Provides a list of homelessness resources.

Mission is to encourage social, educational, and economic advancement of the American Indian community by promoting traditional and cultural values.

List of recent legislative initiatives, KC Employee Resource Group, and KCMO Resources for LGBTQ+ Individuals and Allies.

A local network organizing white people for racial justice in accountability to People of Color (POC). Through Personal Support, Political Education, and Solidarity Action, SURJ KC moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice.

Mission is to enable African Americans and other disadvantaged persons to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.