Carrying the Weight of Campus Change: The Role of Student Equity Leaders in Community College

Eric R. Felix, Carlos A. Galan and Elizabeth Jimenez Perez

The Journal of Higher Education, 2025, vol. 96, issue 3, 383-411

Abstract: This article uses in-depth interviews to explore the experiences of four community college administrators leading policy efforts to advance racial justice efforts. Through a critical organizational lens, we document the unacknowledged labor associated with being the central figure driving institutional equity efforts and the primary person on campus responsible for overseeing and carrying out racialized organizational change. Our analysis yielded two themes: Feelings of taxation, isolation, and being burned out and the difficulty of navigating spaces of resistance to improve racial equity. The findings from this work have implications for policy and practice related to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, reframing community college leadership, and understanding racialized organizational change.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2024.2330334

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