Never before have leadership, equity, and social justice been more important and/or critical to the mission of public universities and institutions of higher education. The twenty-first century has ushered in a period of instantaneous feedback, including live newsfeeds, reviews of goods and services, and online streaming events, as well as experiences. Anyone with a smartphone has access to millions of individuals with whom to report his/her affirmation and/or dissatisfaction with individuals, products, or services. Colleges and universities have not been immune to this current climate. The purpose of this volume is to "critique" the current state of American higher education through the lenses of critical theory and critical pedagogy. This volume seeks to impact higher education preparation programs by filling the void in the literature from voices in the field. The contributing authors are a diverse array of scholars and practitioners who are committed to moral and shared leadership, equity and access, and social justice.

Acknowledgements - C.P. Gause: Introduction - Part One: The Context of Leadership - C. P. Gause: Leadership, Equity, and Social Justice in American Higher Education: Are We Making Progress? - John P. Elia: U.S. Public Higher Education in Peril: The Disastrous Impacts of Corporatization - Hans F. Bader: Title IX: Turning Back the Clock on Free Speech and Due Process - Susan Dennison/C. P. Gause: Funding Cuts in Higher Education Shift Priorities Away from Equity, Diversity, & Inclusivity: A Case Study - Sabrina N. Ross: Re-conceptualizing Higher Education Administration for the 21st Century: Servant Educational Leadership and Knowledge for Public Good in a "Post-racial" Era - Jillian Volpe White/Kathy L. Guthrie: Good for Whom? The Shifting Role of Higher Education - Angelo Letizia: Toward the Global Public Good: A Dialectical Vision for Higher Education - Andrea S. Dauber/Kim Hunt: Private For-Profit Universities: Inflating Academic Degrees and Hurting the Economy? - Nia I. Cantey/Cara Robinson/Michael Harris: Post-Racial Higher Ed.: Implications of Mergers between HBCUs and PWIs - Paul Watkins: Managing Anger and Mistrust in the Academy: Five Steps for Engagement - Kathy L. Guthrie/Tessly A. Dieguez: Creating Emotionally Intelligent Global Leaders - Christopher Cumo: Adjunct Faculty as Commodities - Elizabeth C. Jodoin/Christopher Gregory: The Unintended Consequences of New Residence Hall Construction: Issues of Access and Student Success - Part Two: Equity and Access - Talha Siddiqi/C. P. Gause: The Perspectives of International Students at Southern River University: A Predominantly White Institution (PWI) in the Midwest - Donna Marie Peters/Sonja Peterson-Lewis/Rickie Sanders/Elizabeth L. Sweet/Karen M. Turner/Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon: Treading Treacherous Waters: A Conversation with Women Faculty of Color on Teaching Race - Jay Poole: Being Queer in the Classroom: Understanding and Applying Queer Theories - Gust A. Yep/Sage E. Russo/Rebecca N. Gigi: The New Transnormativity? Reading Mainstream Representations of Caitlyn Jenner in the University Classroom - Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah/Seneca Vaught: The Double-Edged Sword: Fighting for Equity and Professional Advancement in Higher Education - Brenda L. H. Marina: Identifying and Coping with Academe's Glass Ceiling: A Critical Analysis - P. Brandon Johnson: African American Males in a Living Learning Community: Their Experiences at an HBCU - Dalia Rodriguez/Mary Cannito-Coville/Tremayne S. Robertson: Black Masculinity & Surveillance: Gender and Racial Performances in K-12 and University Contexts - James H. Campbell/Brent E. Johnson: You Can't Piss down My Back and Tell Me It's Raining - Jewell E. Cooper/Joseph N. Cooper: Mother to Son: The Role of Cultural and Social Capital in African American Intergenerational Success - Steven Randolph Cureton: Hulking Out: White Males' Response to Bullying, Humiliation, Rejection, Isolation and Perceived Injustice in an Academic Setting - Part Three: Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice - Laura Finley/Kelly Concannon - Social Justice Education in Higher Education - Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas: The Audacity of Humanity: Searching for Hope, Longing for Peace - Lalenja Harrington: On Becoming: Exploring Self, Equity in Education and the Poetry of Critical Thinking - Toby S. Jenkins: Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Uncovering the Significant Learning Experiences in Southern Colored Schools - Robert E. Randolph, Jr.: The Queer Poetics of Social Justice: Literacy, Affect(ion), and the Critical Pedagogical Imperative - Melissa A. Odegard-Koester: Politics of Leading - Laura Finley/Victor Romano/Glenn A. Bowen/Celeste Fraser Delgado: Learning and Leadership in Higher Education: The Role of Service-Learning - Pearlie Strother-Adams: Bridging the Divide: Improving Teacher-Student Relations, Teacher Evaluations, and Retention Levels of African American and Minority Faculty - Lalenja Harrington/Remington Brown: That's The Way I See It: Exploring Collaborative Writing and Critical Ethnographic Research with College Students with Intellectual Disabilities - Sarah J. Dhilla: Intellectual Property Rights in the Online Learning Era - John J. Lee: "Othering" of English Language Learners in Higher Education: Redefining Literacy and Identity in the Digital Age - Brian W. Collier Jr.: Fresh Prince in a Different World - Contributors - Index.