Dedication to academic success and racial equity for students at Kent Campus and beyond. Dr. N.J. Akbar, former Assistant Dean, recently had three book chapters accepted for publication. His chapter, Discussing Student Achievement and the Family in V. Seeburg’s Black American Students’ Achievement in the Suburbs: Academic Success through Family Engagement is expected to be published in December 2021. In May/April 2021, his two chapters of A Race-Conscious Pedagogy Future: Essays that Forge a New Path for Equitable Schools will be published, titled Fixing the System, Not the Student or Family: Dismantling Racism and Institutionalizing Equity by Leveraging Your Board’s Leadership and Underresourced, Underfunded, and COVID: Schools seeking Racial Equity during a Pandemic.