Recognizing Promise: The Role of Community Colleges in a Post Pandemic World (Great Debates in Higher Education) - Softcover

 
9781802627060: Recognizing Promise: The Role of Community Colleges in a Post Pandemic World (Great Debates in Higher Education)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1802627065 ISBN 13: 9781802627060
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022

Synopsis

COVID-19 has exposed and exacerbated entrenched inequities spawned by the historical and structural reality of bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, and inequity in all forms, and at institutional and individual levels. It is perceived that higher education institutions also perpetuates these inequities, which is fuelled by prevailing misconceptions, such as “college should be limited to the privileged few”; or that “community colleges are in some way ‘inferior’.”

Recognizing Promise re-establishes the role community colleges can play in reversing centuries of racial and gender disparities in economic wealth, health, education, and life expectancy stemming from current and historical policies and practices that sustain structural racism. The result is a more civic-minded, educated citizenry and a stronger workforce of tomorrow.

Educators in the community college space, in partnership with business, industry and philanthropic leaders, can lead the way in reasserting commitment toward eradicating racism and sustaining reform that advocates inclusive excellence, educational access and programmatic diversity, and the alignment of learning with opportunities in the workplace.

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About the Author

Michael A. Baston is the 5th President of Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Beatrice L. Bridglall is Inaugural Dean, School of Education & Social Sciences, Rockland Community College (RCC), New York State, U.S.A.

Michael Nettles is Senior Vice President and the Edmund W. Gordon Chair for Policy Evaluation & Research at ETS, U.S.A.

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1802627065
ISBN 13 
9781802627060
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
216
Editor
Baston Michael A., Bridglall Beatrice L., Nettles Michael