Ethical Decision‐Making Needs for Emerging Community College Leaders

Smith, D.; Fox, Emily

doi:10.1002/cc.20340

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“…At Highland Community College in Kansas, institutional leadership were accused of discouraging black students from enrolling and explicitly asking athletic team coaches to cut Black players (Margolies, 2022). Inequities in treatment, outcomes, funding, and support of students of color in general has been found repeatedly in studies of community colleges (Rios-Aguilar & Deil-Amen, 2019; Smith & Fox, 2019).…”

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“Coalition of the Willing”: Promoting Antiracism Through Empowering Community College Campus Members

Hotchkins

McNaughtan

Lujan

2022

Community College Review

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Objective/Research Question: Critical race theory (CRT) was used with a basic qualitative study to interrogate how racism unfolds at community colleges and how Black community college presidents enact antiracism. The purpose of this study is to enhance understandings about how community college presidents of African descent construct antiracism, how those definitions are communicated, and the rationale for creating opportunities to disrupt racism within predominantly White campus environments. Methods: Six presidents participated in three semi-structured interviews lasting approximately 75-minutes each. The sample included three men and three women. Interviews focused on institutional communications about racial tensions concerning how presidents’ identities (e.g., race and gender) influenced decision making with campus stakeholders and presidential roles in defining and enacting antiracism. Results: Three themes emerged including how Accountability matters, the need for Space creators, and importance of developing Student “critical” mass. Participants discussed how they created spaces and utilized cultural capital networks to advance campus diversity agendas to benefit their institutions. Presidents posited that although community college leaders were likely motivated to participate in anti-racist practices due to the bettering of institutional image, decisive work needed to be done despite knowing endemic racism occurs in perpetuity. Conclusions/Contributions: This study highlights the need for enhanced training of presidents about how to conceptualize and engage campus racism. Additionally, presidents posited that the majority of students on their campuses were ready to engage in antiracism leadership activism, but they needed training to be empowered to develop anti-racist programs and practices. Finally, institutions need to develop stronger and more systematic ways to call out racism and promote anti-racist programing and practices.

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“Coalition of the Willing”: Promoting Antiracism Through Empowering Community College Campus Members

Hotchkins

McNaughtan

Lujan

2022

Community College Review

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“…In the last several decades' state appropriations for higher education have been declining, particularly for community colleges (Cummings et al., 2021). Affordability is an issue that disproportionately impacts racially minoritized and underrepresented students as they are at increased risk of dropping out or not transferring and face limited job options without a post‐secondary education credential (Duke‐Benfield et al., 2018; Smith & Fox 2019). While community colleges are majority comprised of racially minoritized and underrepresented students, only two in five students who begin at a community college earn a certificate or an associate degree within 6 years (Shapiro et al., 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

An analysis of statewide college promise programs: Towards a racially equitable future

Salazar

2023

New Drctns Community Coll

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As statewide college promise programs continue to develop, emerging equity concerns necessitate interrogating whom programs benefit and how expense funds can be applied. Critical Policy Analysis (CPA) is used in this chapter to understand how statewide promise programs advance or hinder racial equity across eligibility and financial aid support policy. Results are based on 23 statewide promise programs that claim to make community college, and sometimes 4‐year college, free to eligible students. The results reveal that only 34% of statewide programs include summer term and vocational/technical program eligibility. Only 39% of statewide programs include eligibility for undocumented and half‐time enrolled students, and only 13% include justice‐impacted students. This work serves as a call for statewide promise programs to expand eligibility and financial aid support for non‐traditional students to achieve equitable access to statewide promise programs and receive the necessary support for postsecondary success.

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Ethical Decision‐Making Needs for Emerging Community College Leaders

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“Coalition of the Willing”: Promoting Antiracism Through Empowering Community College Campus Members

“Coalition of the Willing”: Promoting Antiracism Through Empowering Community College Campus Members

An analysis of statewide college promise programs: Towards a racially equitable future

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