Emancipatory Change in US Higher Education

Kenneth R. Roth is a Research Associate with the CHOICES program at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where he examines access and equity issues in higher education, with particular emphasis on the challenges and paths to graduation experienced by students of color, particularly Black males.Felix Kumah-Abiwu is the Founding Director of the Center for African Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA. His research focuses on African American males/public education, the politics of development, political leadership, African security issues, elections and democratization in Africa, foreign policy analysis, and global narcotics policy.Zachary S. Ritter is Vice President of Leadership Development at the Jewish Federation in Los Angeles. Prior, he was Interim Associate Dean of Students at California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA. He also teaches social justice history at both California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, and University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The American University and the Struggle for Democracy.- Chapter 3. Space, place, and power in the Neoliberal Academy: Reflections on Asian American Women and Leadership in The Chair.- Chapter 4. Equity and Efficacy in Teaching Effectiveness Assessment (TEA)8.- Chapter 5. What students, whose success? Reimagining the transformation of higher education through critically engaged student success initiatives.- Chapter 6. Transformative mentoring relationships: Engaging student voices to create emancipatory change in curriculum.- Chapter 7. A Center for Sight and Sound: Connecting Media Representations to Critical Production Training.- Chapter 8. The Quiet Revolution: Humanizing Institutions of Higher Education in the Wake of Existential Trauma.- Chapter 9. The Latina Madre and her Journey to Baccalaureate Degree Attainment.- Chapter 10. Why Race Matters in Financial Literacy Education.- Chapter 11. Philanthropic Funding and the Future ofHBCUs.- Chapter 12. Forging community: Reflections on a colloquium for critical scholars of college sport.