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New Directions for Community Colleges: Supporting Student Success Centers to Overcome Common Equity Challenges

March 17, 2023

At a Glance

This publication highlights areas where Centers and institutions can seek deeper partnerships to make progress toward equitable student success.

Contributors
Jairo McMican, associate director of Equity Initiatives at Achieving the Dream
Practices & Centers

In New Directions for Community Colleges: Supporting student success centers to overcome common equity challenges, Jairo McMican provides concrete examples of how Student Success Centers are actively partnering with institutions to overcome common challenges in eight areas:

  1. Avoiding equity
  2. Not understanding equity
  3. Misaligning equity
  4. Equity versus culture
  5. Embedding equity
  6. Measuring equity
  7. Budgeting
  8. Leveraging equity champions

 

Source: Jairo McMican. Supporting student success centers to overcome common equity challenges. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. January 2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/cc.20557