The Making of an Urban Community College in a Union and Political Environment:
The Making of an Urban Community College in a Union and Political Environment:

Author: Dr. Willie J. Greer Kimmons

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1504971418

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The manuscript will carefully discuss the beginning and turbulent struggle of Wayne County Community College in the 60s; the middle years of growth and pain of the 70s; the crisis of the 80s that almost closed the college; the growth in the 90s; and its current status of productivity and stability. In addition, the book will address community and instructional leaders roles, duties, responsibilities, and styles. Their commitments and obligations in the teaching, learning, and leadership development process will also be addressed. The document will demonstrate how to plan, how to develop your own leadership style, and how to inspire leadership in others. This body of work is an outgrowth of many years of discussions between citizens of Detroit; former students, teachers, and staff; political and community leaders; and the board of trustees and former presidents of Wayne County Community College in Detroit, Michigan, whom I owe a tremendous amount of admiration, respect, and appreciation too.

A Parenting Guidebook
A Parenting Guidebook

Author: Dr. Willie J. Greer Kimmons

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2005-02-16

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1463475233

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A Parenting Guide Book isa 260 page,practical, easy to read and use book that tells you what to say and how to say it to your children as a parent, grandparent or significant and responsible adult in the home. Children need their parent/responsible adult figure to be involved in their lives and with their schoolwork. The Parenting Guide Book is just what busy parents, teachers or responsible adults in the home need to assist them with rearing children. The book provides helpful advice, wonderful ideas and ready-to-use strategies all designed to improve parenting skills and school success. A Parenting Guide Book is intended to assist parents and others who are involved in the important job of helping to raise and educate children. Children are our greatest resource; they are our future and an extension of parents. Having quality parental involvement in the early stages of a childs life is crucial and paramount to the growth and development of successful adults.

Abstract Barrios
Abstract Barrios

Author: Johana Londoño

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1478012277

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In Abstract Barrios Johana Londoño examines how Latinized urban landscapes are made palatable for white Americans. Such Latinized urban landscapes, she observes, especially appear when whites feel threatened by concentrations of Latinx populations, commonly known as barrios. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis of barrio built environments, Londoño shows how over the past seventy years urban planners, architects, designers, policy makers, business owners, and other brokers took abstracted elements from barrio design—such as spatial layouts or bright colors—to safely “Latinize” cities and manage a long-standing urban crisis of Latinx belonging. The built environments that resulted ranged from idealized notions of authentic Puerto Rican culture in the interior design of New York City’s public housing in the 1950s, which sought to diminish concerns over Puerto Rican settlement, to the Fiesta Marketplace in downtown Santa Ana, California, built to counteract white flight in the 1980s. Ultimately, Londoño demonstrates that abstracted barrio culture and aesthetics sustain the economic and cultural viability of normalized, white, and middle-class urban spaces.

The Personal, Private, Professional, Political Life and Legacy of the Honorable Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm-Hardwick
The Personal, Private, Professional, Political Life and Legacy of the Honorable Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm-Hardwick

Author: Dr. Willie James Greer Kimmons

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2022-09-18

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1665570415

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Shirley Chisholm lived most of her life in secrecy and made a special effort to protect herself from the public, especially her personal and private life. She lived a very painful and lonely life surrounded by few friends and family. When Congresswoman Chisholm retired as a politician in 1983, she completely removed herself from political life. Hundreds of mass media people, film writers, book publishing companies, producers and authors have sought information about her personal and private life. Many of them offered $25,000 to $50,000 for this information. This book can serve as a resource of information on how to survive in a racist, sexist and political environment as a woman. It is a must read to inspire, teach and educate people of all races about the life and legacy of a great American. The book addresses the early life of Congresswoman Chisholm’s birth on November 30, 1924 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community of Brooklyn, New York to her death in Ormond Beach, Florida on January 1, 2005.

Urban Humanities
Urban Humanities

Author: Dana Cuff

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0262356996

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Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies. Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities practices in the field. Urban humanities views the city through a lens of spatial justice, and its inquiries are centered on the microsettings of everyday life. The book's case studies report on real-world projects in mega-cities in the Pacific Rim—Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—with several projects described in detail, including playful spaces for children in car-oriented Mexico City, a commons in a Tokyo neighborhood, and a rolling story-telling box to promote “literary justice” in Los Angeles.

Parenting Forever Workbook
Parenting Forever Workbook

Author: Dr. Willie J. Greer Kimmons

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-10-11

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1665535555

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Lack of parental involvement is our main problem in rearing children. This Parenting Forever Workbook is intended to assist parents, grandparents and significant adults in the household who are involved in the important job of raising and educating children. Parents are children’s first and most influential teachers, good or bad. This Parenting Forever Workbook is designed to help and encourage parents to be actively involved in a positive way in their children’s education and development. Training sessions will be developed for parents to learn effective parenting skills during 7 modules consisting of 3 Saturdays. Parenting workshops and seminars will be structured around the parenting needs to assist parents to get involved and stay involved with their children’s development. These training parenting sessions will be a written agreement between the parents and the training facilitators. This workbook will set guidelines for parents to learn how to prepare their children for life.

Free City!
Free City!

Author: Marcy Rein

Publisher: PM Press

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1629638455

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Free City! The Fight for San Francisco’s City College and Education for All tells the story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US. In 2012, the accreditor sanctioned City College of San Francisco, one of the biggest and best community colleges in the country, and a year later proposed terminating its accreditation, leading to a state takeover. Free City! follows the multipronged strategies of the campaign and the diverse characters that carried them out. Teachers, students, labor unions, community groups, public officials, and concerned individuals saved a treasured public institution as San Francisco’s working-class communities of color battled the gentrification that was forcing them out of the city. And they pushed back against the national “reform” agenda of corporate workforce training that drives students towards debt and sidelines lifelong learning and community service programs. Combining analysis with narrative, Free City! offers a case study in the power of positive vision and solution-oriented organizing and a reflection on what education can and should be.

Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society
Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society

Author: Chhabra, Susheel

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-02-23

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1522541985

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Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development and social change. This can be achieved through a number of methods including public policy and urban development. The Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society is a critical scholarly resource that examines the unexplored field of applying social change to civic engagement in an effort to enlarge public welfare activities. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as civic education, sustainable development, and child labor, this publication is geared towards academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on civic engagement and public welfare.