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Closing the Equity Gap

Bryan Reece, Ph.D.

Jul 22, 2019
5 min

Closing the Equity Gap

There is an equity gap in the U.S. that plays out decade after decade along historical patterns associated with race, ethnicity, income, immigration status and more. There are groups in the U.S. who get the short end of the stick so frequently and consistently that structural forces must be at play in our society. We refer to this phenomenon as structural inequality and to counter the effects of this, we often turn to institutions of higher education. Helping people from hist

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Countering the Weight of Socialization

Bryan Reece, Ph.D.

Jul 22, 2019
3 min

Countering the Weight of Socialization

In my experience, every student who comes to college wants to be successful and every employee working in higher education wants students to be successful. Everyone (literally everyone) I have worked with in the community college setting wants student success to happen at their college. In spite of this overwhelming good will, too many students fail to achieve their academic goals. Why? Measuring student success at a community college is a challenge in itself. There are diffe

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Bryan Reece, Ph.D.