While there is overwhelming evidence of the positive impact of culturally responsive and equitable practices for adult learners and students of color, there is a remaining lack of infrastructural and institutional support for culturally sustaining work. Much anti-racist work has relied on individual dedication, grant-specific funding, and…

This brief raises the issue of how community colleges that are predominately white struggle with creating warm and welcoming campus environments to engage and equitably meet the cultural needs of their diverse learners, particularly for students who hold racially minoritized identities due to systems of oppression. Moving from integration to…

An increasing number of jobs in today's workforce require postsecondary education, yet large numbers of workers lack the essential skills and credentials to fill these jobs. The result is that many workers remain underemployed, reaching a ceiling early in their working careers. In 2007, the Joyce Foundation launched the Shifting Gears initiative…