Delivering Promise : Harvard Education Press : 9781682538890 : 1682538893 : 30 Apr 2024 : An invigorating take on how community and technical colleges can center equity in fostering institutional transformation. In Delivering Promise, award-winning scholar of higher education Xueli Wang tells a story of educational change and innovation that has and continues to occur at countless campuses of community and technical colleges. Wang weaves together a careful account of how faculty, staff, administrators, institutional researchers, and college leaders rapidly adjusted to crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic, while grappling with a new or renewed commitment to centering equity in their work. Her rich analysis of their successes and struggles is based on interviews with more than a hundred college stakeholders across several states, site visits, and reviews of voluminous media sources and internal documents. In this inspiring and insightful work, Wang highlights compelling examples of equi