Moorpark College BSSW Events 2025 - Lift Up. Level Up.
The sixth annual Black Student Success Week
April 21-25, 2025
Join us online from Noon to 1pm every day.
This year’s theme is Lift Up, Level Up: The Rise of Black Serving Institutions. For more info regarding topics and registration, please visit https://blkstudentsuccess.com.
Join us for the Black Hour, The After Party and The Student Hour!
Zoom Backgrounds
April 21-April 24, 2025
Watch Party
Fountain Hall 220 from 12pm to 1pm
Join us daily for The Black Hour watch party, a webinar series hosted by BSSW statewide.
Monday, April 21
BSSW Webinar: The Rise of Black-Serving Institutions
The webinar explores the growing need for a formal Black Serving Institution (BSI) designation, focusing on California community colleges. The session emphasizes how a BSI designation addresses systemic inequities, enhances resources, and improves educational outcomes, ensuring these colleges better serve their communities.
Tuesday April 22
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | MC Quad
Soul Cream Social
Tuesday, April 22
BSSW Webinar: Black Servingness: Maintaining Our Voice and Action
This session will explore the importance of "Black Servingness" nationally and in the state of California. Servingness involves surrounding students, faculty, staff with the cultural ambiance that allows and prioritizes their cultural heritage in ways that profoundly support and affirm their dignity and sense of belonging. As we navigate these unprecedented times in higher education, this session will focus on what actions can be taken now to shape "Black Servingness" at institutions of higher education.
Wednesday, April 23
BSSW Webinar: Power Moves: Equipping Black Talent for Tomorrow's Workforce
This session is a dynamic workshop designed to empower Black students with the tools, insights, and inspiration needed to thrive in high-growth industries. The session offers participants a rare opportunity to engage with top Black CEOs who have excelled in fields driving the future of work: cybersecurity, healthcare, and skilled trades.
Wednesday, April 23
3:00 PM | AC 106-107
Black 365 Knowledge Bowl
Thursday, April 24
BSSW Webinar: Putting the AFRICAN in African America Student Success
In Fall 2024, 375 educators and leaders from across the state attended the second All African Diaspora Education Summit (ADES) in Ghana, Africa, to learn about African-centered ways of being, thinking, teaching, and learning. Learn more about the Summit, African-centered education, and how faculty are activating what they learned to create Black-serving classrooms and institutions.
Friday, April 25
BSSW Webinar: Live from the Frontlines of Black Student Success: Accounts from Practitioners and Executive Leadership
Join us for a session highlighting real-time reflections from esteemed Black Student Success Practitioners and Executive Leadership working tirelessly to lift up and level up the movement.