In partnership with the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB), the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) has had an ongoing commitment toward providing support for Illinois community colleges, with the goal of advancing equitable outcomes for students. In pursuit of this objective, OCCRL researchers have worked with numerous Pathways to Results (PTR) teams statewide, applying the PTR framework to analyze data toward naming a specific equity gap, interrogating associated institutional processes and practices, and implementing change toward closing the identified gap. Regardless of what a PTR team ultimately decides to focus on, conversations on equity inevitably lead to conversations on race. Within such talks, questions often arise about the extent to which institutional leaders understand the racial campus climate. This brief supports practitioners in answering the following questions: (1) What is racial campus climate? (2) Why would a community college assess racial campus climate? and (3) What resources could be utilized to assess racial campus climate?