Jonathan Luke Wood (born February 21, 1982), known professionally as J. Luke Wood, is an American social scientist, author, and the Dean's Distinguished Professor of Education at San Diego State University . He is consistent voice on leadership theory and black male achievement in the American community colleges system. Wood is a Professor at San Diego State University and Co-Director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL), a national research and practice center that partners with community colleges on issues regarding men of color. CCEAL hosts the National Consortium on College Men of Color (NCCMC), a professional development consortium for member community colleges.
Wood is a co-director of the Center for Organizational Responsibility and Advancement (CORA), a professional development organization that claims to support educational professionals in advancing their capacity to serve historically underrepresented and underserved students. In 2013, Wood received the Barbara K. Townsend Emerging Scholar Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges of the American Association of Community Colleges.
Wood earned his Ph.D. in 2010 from Arizona State University (ASU) in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with a concentration in Higher Education. He also holds a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education from ASU as well as a M.A. in Student Affairs and B.A. in Black History and Politics from California State University, Sacramento.
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Black Minds Matter
In 2017, Wood taught a nationally broadcast course titled "Black Minds Matter: A Focus on Black Boys and Men in Education." The course was streamed to a registered audience of 10,000 learners who participated as individuals and at 260 live broadcast and replay sites across the nation. Each session included commentary from Wood and featured guest speakers such as Shaun R. Harper, Ilyasah Shabazz, Patrisse Cullors, Jerlando F. L. Jackson, S. Lee Merritt, and Frank Harris III. A review of each week of the course was released in HuffPost According to the public syllabus, the course was "Black Minds Matter is a public course designed to increase the national consciousness about issues facing Black boys and men in education. The course draws parallels between issues faced by Black males in society and the ways that Black minds are engaged in the classroom." The course was panned by conservatives as a propaganda for the Black Lives Matter movement and resulted in Wood being listed as one of 15 "Teachers vs. Preachers" professors for conservative students to avoid. Wood indicated that the course was offered as a response to the shooting of Alfred Olango by police officers in El Cajon California, near San Diego.
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Publications
Wood has authored over 100 publications, including seven co-authored books, six edited books, and more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles. Some of his books include:
- Teaching boys and young men of color: A guidebook
- Teaching men of color in the community college: A guidebook
- Advancing Black male student success from preschool through PhD
- Black men in higher education: A guide to ensuring success
- Ethical leadership and the community colleges: Paradigms, decision-making, and praxis
- Black male collegians: Increasing access, retention, and persistence in higher education
- STEM models of success: Programs, policies, and practices in the community college
- Leadership theory and the community college: Applying theory to practice
- Community colleges and STEM: Examining underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities
- Black men in college: Implications for HBCU's and beyond
- Black males in post-secondary education: Examining their experiences in diverse institutional contexts
- Community college leadership and administration: Theory, practice and change
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