Strategies for Support: Black Women Faculty Career Advancement at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472110478
Author(s):  
Andrea Del Priore
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Historically Black ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Women Faculty ◽  
Historically Black Colleges ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
Black Colleges And Universities ◽  
Black Women Faculty

Although there is an abundance of scholarship about the challenges presented to Black women faculty at Predominantly White Institutions, the career advancement of Black women faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities has gone largely unnoticed. Considering Historically Black Colleges and Universities are where Black women faculty achieve tenure in the highest percentages, this study took a non-deficit perspective and investigated what supports are used by Black women faculty both internal to the institution and externally. The sites of this study were 43 HBCUs with 25% or more of tenured faculty comprised of Black women. Faculty rank and discipline were considered when comparing the survey data. Some supports include networks, family, religion, collaboration, and other strategies. This study provides a preliminary step in studying what supports Black women find most useful in navigating their faculty careers.

Referee Judgments of Communication in the Field of Play: A Study on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Division II College Football

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Andrew Dix
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Historically Black ◽  
College Football ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Predominantly White Institutions ◽  
Historically Black Colleges ◽  
Communicative Behaviors ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
Black Colleges And Universities

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the in-game communication of football players from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) was excessively penalized in the field of play. Previous literature has found that referee bias is commonplace and uncovered evidence that referees socially judge the communicative behaviors of HBCU student athletes differently than the communicative behaviors of student athletes from predominantly White institutions. This led to social judgment theory emerging as the theoretical frame. Quantitative methods were utilized to analyze National Collegiate Athletic Association data for Division II college football. Findings revealed that referees disproportionately flagged football teams from HBCUs in comparison with predominantly White institutions. These results provide implications for theory. The uncovered results also support a well-developed line of communication research that has indicated that excessive penalties are levied against HBCU teams in multiple sports. A rhetorical call to action is made to facilitate officiating change in intercollegiate athletics.

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