Beyond Equity at Community Colleges

This volume proposes that the work of community colleges has expanded beyond equity into providing a true barrier-free learning environment for students, one that is attuned to justice.

Autorentext

Sobia Azhar Khan is Provost at Valencia College, East and Lake Nona Campus.

Kendra Unruh is an English faculty member at Dallas College, Richland Campus.

Inhalt

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Journey Toward Justice: A Call to Action for Community Colleges. 1. The Myth of "Diversity Training" at the Community College: Ten Practical Strategies for Antiracist Instruction and Making Whiteness Visible. 2. Laying Bare the Foundations: Examining and Confronting Language Expectations in a College Syllabus. 3. Toward an Equitable Pedagogy: Invitational Education in the Community College Classroom. 4. Relational Poverty Theory in Praxis at San Antonio College. 5. Integrating Racial Justice Theory into Writing Center Practice. 6. Centering From The Margins: The Standpoint of Women of Color STEM Majors in the Community College. 7. Beyond the Language Barrier: Just Approaches to Teaching Literacy in Community Colleges. 8. "Those Particular Pleasant Hours": How Community College Choirs Can Transform Equity into Liberation. 9. Collaboration, Sustained Inquiry, and Epistemic Justice: Worldbuilding in the Community College Research Writing Classroom. 10. Moving the Classroom to the Field: Creating Opportunities of Equity and Justice for New York City Community College Students. 11. One Step Closer to Freedom: How a Trauma-Informed Writing Center Staff Supports Students Upon Reentry. 12. Justice through History, Writing, and Art: The Poorhouse Rag Project. 13. "We went from listening to authority to becoming the authority": Privileging the Voices of Students through Participatory Action Research. 14. Beyond the Talk: Lived Experience as a Catalyst to Taking Action.