Ashley C. Barton, Ed.D Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Facilitate initiatives across the College to encourage an inclusive environment for students of a variety of backgrounds, identities, experiences, perspectives, and ideas.Oversees the CARE Center (Civility, Access, Resources, Expression). Develop critical skills among community members, especially students, to build cultural understanding, confront bias, and cultivate anti-racist practices in alignment with the President's Initiative on Anti-Racism and the Black Experience in America. Broaden the community's understanding of DEI to include the experiences and sense of belonging for people of every race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental ability, citizenship, etc.Provide educational experiences and training programs, from orientation to more advanced programs, for student leaders, groups, and organizations, including Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College, Research Institutes, College Programming Board, Success Coaches, Student Mentorship Organizations, CMS Athletics, First Year Guides, and Resident Assistants.Direct and oversee the CARE Center

San Diego, Ca

Inaugural Director of the BSRC. Oversaw the establishment and implementation of a new Black student commons from inception.Provide new, and integrating current, support services for black students at all levels ofrecruitment, retention, graduation, and fostering alumni relationships• Create regular opportunities for the Black community (students, faculty and staff) to gatherand share successes and challenges• Collaboratively liaise with the Black Student Union and other black student organizationsthat empower Black students• Serve as a general resource and advisor to students who indicate black among the race(s)with which they identify, as well as to all SSS students.• Coordinate Black Graduate Celebration Ceremony• Coordinate and lead weekly student programs and events• With the SSS and ICI Directors, manage the budget associated with carrying out theseresponsibilities• Supervise undergraduate student workers and interns• Through SSS Summer Bridge and follow-up workshops, coordinate educational sessions ontopics students typically struggle with in their transition to the USD community• Work collaboratively with student centers and departments to support Black student success

• Academic Advisor for Classics, Philosophy, PPL and Religion Majors and Minors• Plan 4-5 year courses plans for students’ undergraduate education• Provide information on academic and social resources available on campus• Advise on matters of curriculum, course and degree requirements, transfer credit evaluation, and graduation counseling and clearance.• Advise incoming students during Orientation on academic expectations• Promote academic majors and minors during student events and classes• Develop and execute major/minor recruitment programs• Evaluate student problems, academic, administrative or personal, and refers student to appropriate student services office for additional counseling• Provides career information and limited placement services for students and alumni• Staff Advisor for Freshman students in Learning Communities• Staff Mentor in Office of Residential Life

• Program planning for graduate students in a variety of subjects related to graduate student needs, e.g. personal relationships, balancing graduate school • Provide general campus resource information• Collaborate with other campus departments and organizations• Graduate Student Association programming committee member• Conduct office related duties and provide support for GSRC Director and Writing Center Director

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Recruit, contact and interview potential foster parents• Advise applicants on the foster parent application process• Counsel family members and discuss family changes• Discuss with applicants reasons they can or cannot become a foster family• English/Spanish translations, clerical duties, phone banking, data input• Instructor for foster parent training classes• Conduct home inspections

• Supervisor of the Outreach Project, SHAPE, overseeing the work of the project director and administrative staff• Hold bi-weekly meetings with the director discussing project objectives, staff concerns/issues, and student progress within the program• Facilitate SHAPE advisory board meetings to assess project successes and challenges• Provide project assessment and evaluation through quarterly evaluations

Ed.D, Edu. Leadership. Diss Title: Attaining Success-How African-American Students Persist And Graduate, Concentration: Higher Education Administration

Activities and Societies: Educational Doctorate Student Assembly (EDSA), Graduate Student Association

M.Ed, Student Affairs

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Resource Center, Black Graduate Student Association, NASPA, Institute for Recruitment.

Ba, Sociology W/ Minor In Education

Activities and Societies: African Student Union, SHAPE Program, African Women's Collective, African Arts Ensemble, GEAR Up, CPO (SIAC).