In this final chapter, we reflected on the collective works presented in this volume by a diverse group of community college scholars and leaders. Through this reflection, we share how this scholarship sought to operationalize and enhance the definitions of equity-driven and social justice-oriented leadership in community colleges. After…

Considering the range of social justice issues at the forefront of 21st Century American life, and the ways in which these issues manifest on community college campuses, leaders must examine their responsibility to confront inequities and promote change. Transformative leadership is a style of leading that explicitly acknowledges inequities within…

Civic engagement and social justice are topics that maintain the ability to impact individuals personally, professionally, and academically. This article outlines the importance of having discussions centered on equality, integrity, and community involvement in two-year institutional classrooms. Examinations are conducted on moments in history…

Addressing the Student Success Center Network's newly adopted statement on racial equity and economic recovery, this chapter describes actions the student success centers and their affiliated college networks are taking to address policies and practices that perpetuate systemic inequalities and recommends additional steps to enhance educational…

Presidential assistants are important and trusted staff members to the president and the campus community at large. Despite their importance, little is known about the day-to-day of their jobs and how they may help advance equity and social justice goals and priorities at the community college level. This chapter attempts to rectify this gap…

Community colleges hold a central piece in law enforcement training. Their curricula often based on mandates from state law enforcement boards. They had been gradually increasing their focus of these training programs on issues related to diversity, equity and racial profiling. This spotlight has led to changes (or potential changes) in areas like…

This article showcases an example of a large-scale open educational resource (OER) statistics course redesign at Guttman Community College from evaluation, creation, and development. It highlights ways I identified students' needs and responded to them, integrated equity into the OER design by describing how social justice principles were applied,…

The Student Success Center Network (SSCN) is dedicated to advancing racial justice and economic mobility by dramatically and equitably increasing the number of students earning postsecondary credentials with labor market value. Managed by Jobs for the Future, the SSCN has worked since 2012 to develop, implement, and scale student success…

This article provides a rationale and resources for teaching climate justice and civic engagement across the STEM curriculum in K-12 and higher education. It presents a culturally responsive approach to STEM teaching and learning that centers social justice issues arising from climate impacts, and energy extraction and development activities, with…

The purpose of this article is to share an example of how an activism framework was used to design and launch a new EdD in Community College Leadership. Capper, Theoharis, and Sebastian's (2006) framework for preparing leaders for social justice along with the Carnegie Project for the Education Doctorate's (CPED) guiding principles and the…

This chapter describes the community college challenge to support all learners to succeed in college and enter the middle class as citizens, parents, and workers.

"Transformative Critical Service-Learning" offers hands-on tools for implementing, reflecting on, and assessing critical service-learning in classrooms and community spaces. Answering a need from practitioners for a practical tool for making sense of critical service-learning, the authors introduce the Critical Service-Learning…

Discussion protocols are processes that help groups achieve deep understanding through dialogue (Easton 2009). Protocols can provide structures for practitioners with different interests or perspectives to interact in ways that are productive and inclusive. To best support leadership and college teams, coaches should be aware of when and how to…

We, as community college English teachers, have the opportunity to empower students who have been subjected to years of top-down, teacher-directed education. We have the obligation to make them critical thinkers, improving their chances of being thoughtful and successful adults. It all begins with the way we teach writing and the respect we have…

Two-year college faculty have begun articulating a "teacher-scholar-activist" professional identity. After tracing the emergence of this concept and calls for solidarity in two-year college writing studies, we draw on two case studies to advocate for cross-sector disciplinary alliances that expand educational opportunity, improve…