Cultural Responsiveness: Engage in culturally responsive interactions with students, faculty, staff, and community members of diverse backgrounds, including varied languages, nationalities, ethnicities, socio-economic levels, ages, identities, abilities, and educational experiences. Its colleges offer instruction to 225,000 students annually, in 600 associates'' degrees and 400 certificates of achievement programs in general, career-technical and transfer education, and contribute significantly to its students'' economic and social well-being regional economy the greater Los Angeles area.