Minding the Obligation Gap in Community Colleges and Beyond

Acknowledgements - Preface: The Endless Loop of My Misguided Community College Pathway by Jeremiah J. Sims - Naming the Obligation Gap - Embracing the Obligation: Social Consciousness and Epistemological Disruption - Minding the Programming Gap - Minding the Pedagogy Gap - Enacting Educational Equity - A Critical Race Critique of Shared Governance and Institutional Discrimination - Faculty Leadership in Enacting Educational Equity - Epilogue: In Closing - Index.

Jeremiah J. Sims, inaugural Director of Equity for the College of San Mateo (California), is an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a B.A. in rhetoric, with honors, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in education. Jeremiah's work, chronicled in his first book, Revolutionary STEM Education: Critical-Reality Pedagogy and Social Justice in STEM for Black Males (Lang, 2018), details his experiences as an educator working toward a revolutionary, paradigm shift in the STEM education of and for Black boys. Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza is Vice President of Instruction at Skyline College (California), with over twenty years of higher education experience. Dr. Taylor-Mendoza is continually inspired by the brilliance, power, and endless potential of community college students. Her research focuses on the intrinsic resiliency of students of color and institutional approaches to addressing systemic, structural inequities. She holds a B.A. in psychology from California State University, Los Angeles, an M.S. in counseling from California State University, Northridge, and a Ph.D. in education from Claremont Graduate University. Lasana O. Hotep, inaugural Dean of Student Equity and Support Programs and founding Executive Director of the Equity Institute at Skyline College (California), earned his B.A. in speech communications and history at Texas State University, San Marcos and his M.A. in history from Arizona State University. For over 15 years, he has worked at large research universities, two-year colleges, and as a consultant to educational and corporate entities in addressing issues of race, gender, and social justice and their impact on organizational success. Jeramy Wallace, Associate Professor of English at the College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California, received his M.A. in English from Notre Dame de Namur University and his postsecondary teaching credentials from San Francisco State University. He has written and presented widely on race, educational

"Grounded in a strength-based perspective, Minding the Obligation Gap in Community Colleges and Beyond makes a compelling case for educators to recognize the power and impact of their words on students' lives. The authors not only interrogate common educational perspectives, but they deconstruct common practices of the academy that often perpetuate inequities. This book compels educators to look within when considering needed change so that typically marginalized and minoritized students can share the sheer majesty of their intellect and talent-and be recognized for it."-Regina Stanback Stroud, Chancellor, Peralta Community College District