CSM Equity Director Jeremiah Sims’ new book is now out and available through Peter Lang Publishers. Revolutionary STEM Education: Critical-Reality Pedagogy and Social Justice in STEM for Black Males calls for a revolutionary paradigm shift in the STEM education of and for black boys.

Sims’ lived experiences as an inner-city, low-income black male are interspersed throughout Revolutionary STEM Education. However, the heartbeat of this book is undoubtedly the stories of the positive transformation that the MAN UP scholars experienced while becoming more competent in STEM, developing positive STEM identities, and learning to use their STEM knowledge for social justice.

In addition to this book, a group of SMCCD educators are working on another with Peter Lang Publishers, entitled: Minding the Obligation Gap in Community Colleges: Theory & Practice in Enacting Educational Equity. Sims is co-authoring this book along with Jennifer Taylor Mendoza, Lasana Hotep, and Jeramy Wallace. Peter Lang Publishers is also in the process of creating a community college specific book series and asked Sims to be the editor. This means SMCCD will soon be leading the state and conceivably the country in community college specific literature.