A Model for Advancing Racial Equity in Community Colleges

• In Event: Power and Possibilities in the Community College Context

Abstract

We offer a model to Advance Racial Equity focused on two dimensions: individual responsibility for equity as well as the level of institutional commitment demonstrated. From these dimensions, we describe four quadrants with distinct organizational conditions that shape how equity advocates design, build, and sustain equity efforts. With well-documented racial inequities and renewed calls for racial justice across higher education, it demands new ways of exploring and understanding how institutional actors carrying the weight of change are nested with community colleges with differing organizational contexts that can enable as well as restrict the enactment and success of racial equity efforts.

Authors

• Eric R. Felix, San Diego State University

• Angel D. Gonzalez, California State University - Fresno