Challenging the Gendered Academic Hierarchy

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice D. Yoder
Keyword(s):  
Career Choices ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Research Choices

In my 2017 Sherif Award address, I pay tribute to Carolyn Wood Sherif for her insightful exposure of an academic hierarchy in psychology and her call to be skeptical not only of our research choices but also of our career choices. I contend that the artificial separation of research/scholarship and teaching/mentoring, along with the masculinization and privileging of the former over the latter, contributes to perpetuating this gendered academic hierarchy. I suggest three possibilities for integrating teaching and research, embedded within one’s commitment to feminist activism, by (a) publishing about one’s own teaching, (b) researching one’s teaching effectiveness, and (c) using one’s classes to do research that contributes to feminist scholarship (as well as, in a fourth example, challenging the academic hierarchy itself). My immodest goal is to inspire junior and senior academic feminists to practice a “subversive” feminism that challenges the gendered, hierarchical academic institutions in which we are immersed as feminists “doing” (i.e., socially constructing) both teaching and research.

scholarly journals Challenging Conventions—A Perspective From Within and Without

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison J. K. Green
Keyword(s):  
Research Performance ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
League Tables

Academics globally are calling for urgent and proportionate action on the climate and ecological crisis (CEC), not only from governments and corporations but from leaders of academic institutions themselves. In this article, I argue that academic institutions are failing in their over-arching mission to humanity and the planet, and that they are increasingly part of the problem, not the solution. I explore the widespread use of league tables and metrics to capture and assess teaching and research performance and argue that these tell us little about how well academic institutions are faring in terms of their fundamental mission. I go on to chart the lackluster response of academic institutions to the CEC and a tendency to develop responses to the CEC that are centered on achieving carbon neutrality across estates and operations. I explore the moral and ethical case for transformative change within academia and give some examples of actions that institutions could readily take. The article concludes by stating that responsibility can no longer be shirked and that academic institutions must embrace Radical reform.

Feminism, Activism, and Scholarship in Global Context

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Naples ◽  
Nikki McGary
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Nancy Fraser

The histories of women’s studies and feminist scholarship reveal the lack of distinction between feminist activism and feminist scholarship. The term “feminism” consists of multiple theories and agendas depending on regional, historical, and individual contexts. Broadly speaking, feminism includes theoretical and practical challenges to gender inequality and multiple forms of systemic oppression. However, the political projects that make women their objects are not always feminist; and political projects that address women’s issues are not always framed around the concept of feminism. Women activists and organizations do not always explicitly identify as feminist, although they might be participants in struggles aligned with broad feminist goals, including women’s empowerment, autonomy, human rights, and economic justice. A major theme that runs through feminist scholarship on women’s activism relates to the question of what difference women’s participation and feminist analyses make for progressive struggles. Feminist philosopher Nancy Fraser argues that there are “gender dimensions” to all struggles for social justice, and “feminists better be in these struggles and bring out those dimensions because certainly nobody else will.” Feminist scholars have also long debated what counts as a women’s movement. Revisioning women’s movements to include the diversity of women’s political analyses and strategies requires rethinking the labels used to categorize feminisms more generally.

Looking Back

2012 ◽  
Vol 736 ◽  
pp. 316-332
Author(s):  
Subrata Ray
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Student Life ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Looking Back

My entry to the professional world of academics was more of straying into it when I had been trying to find a suitable profession where I could spend my life without boredom. Continuing studies till Ph.D. was partly due to inertia and partly due to the enjoyment of a carefree student life. After completing Ph.D. only two options were available – joining research laboratories or higher academic institutions of teaching and research. Initially, I joined research laboratories and soon I was tired of listening everyday to the frustrations of my colleagues and their dissatisfaction with their bosses. The possibility of spending my life in such an environment started to haunt me and I was afraid to become one of them eventually. I decided to jump out of it and join the academic world of higher education. I got fascinated by this environment, which has an ever-changing component of student community, which helps one to remain young in mind. The academic world also has its share of negativities. But one has the freedom of creating an insulated space where you may do your academic work happily along with your students and collaborators and build a barrier outside

Resistance at the Limits: Feminist Activism and Conscientious Objection in Israel

2012 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Natanel
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Conscientious Objection ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Conscientious Objectors ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates the relationship between feminism and conscientious objection in Israel, evaluating the efficacy of feminist resistance in the organised refusal movement. While recent feminist scholarship on peace, anti-occupation and anti-militarism activism in Israel largely highlights women's collective action, it does so at the risk of eliding the relations of power within these groups. Expanding the scope of consideration, I look to the experiences of individual feminist conscientious objectors who make visible significant tensions through their accounts of military refusal and participation in the organised conscientious objection movement. Drawing on original ethnographic research, this article problematises feminist activism in the organised Israeli refusal movement through three primary issues: political voice; privilege; and the realisation of gender agendas. Using Michel Foucault's conceptualisation of power as it has been critiqued and qualified by feminist scholars, I consider the ways in which resistance may be both multiple and a diagnostic of power, allowing activists and academics not only to envision new avenues for social change, but also to recognise their constraints. Critically, feminist theories of intersectionality enrich and complicate this Foucauldian approach to power, providing further modes of critique and strategy in the context of feminist activism in Israel. Ultimately, I argue not only for engagement with the limits of power, but also attention to their function, as in theory and praxis these boundaries critically inform our theorising on gender and resistance.

scholarly journals Grateful Client Philanthropy and Veterinary Medicine: Experiences at North Carolina State University

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Dianne Dunning ◽  
Sherry L. Buckles ◽  
David C. Dorman
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Federal Funds ◽  
North Carolina State University ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Funding Gap

The historical reliance of state and federal funds as a sole source of veterinary educational activities has created a funding gap at many academic institutions. Due to declining resources, philanthropy has become an important source of financial support for veterinary colleges in the United States. In particular, for academic institutions with veterinary hospitals, grateful client philanthropy has been an increasingly important area of resource growth. Philanthropic gifts support innovative research, scholarship and capital, and programmatic initiatives. Areas of giving are often geared towards major infrastructure gifts and naming opportunities, faculty endowment, student scholarships, and other gift opportunities. This review provides an overview of grateful client philanthropy at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine and explores the various giving opportunities and challenges of donor giving in veterinary medicine. (129/200)

Researching the Teaching-Research Nexus: A Critical Review

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Rewards

The question of whether or not a nexus exists between the teaching and research roles of academics is often contentious and has been the subject of much research and writing over this century. This paper critically examines a large portion of this body of literature. The first section provides a historical and an organisational perspective on the evolution of the teaching and research roles of academic work. It then reviews the higher education literature which reflects three approaches to examining the teaching-research nexus: personal commentaries and analyses; correlations of measures of teaching effectiveness as measured by student evaluations and measures of research productivity based predominantly on publication counts; and surveys of academics of their work preferences, time spent on teaching and research activities and perceptions of academic rewards. The paper then presents some recent investigations of the teaching-research nexus which have attempted to take different investigative approaches, and concludes by suggesting future research directions.

Airing Egypt’s Dirty Laundry: BuSSy’s Storytelling as Feminist Social Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124322110579
Author(s):  
Nehal Elmeligy
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Youtube Videos

In this paper, I examine alternative feminist activism and social movements in Egypt by analyzing BuSSy. BuSSy is a performance art group that hosts storytelling workshops and monologues of taboo and “shameful” personal stories that challenge societal and state-sanctioned normative discourses on femininity/womanhood and masculinity/manhood. Drawing on transnational feminist scholarship and queer theory and using collective memory as a lens, I argue that BuSSy’s storytelling is an act of airing Egypt’s dirty laundry, queering normative discourses to enable feminist counter-memorializing. Based on content analysis of secondary data including BuSSy’s published interviews, YouTube videos, website and Facebook images, and testimonies from 2006 to 2020, my analysis reveals BuSSy as curating an “archive of feelings” centralizing gendered narratives of shame. I examine how BuSSy’s affectively contagious storytelling leads to feminist social change by empowering storytellers and listeners. BuSSy’s works create cathartic experiences to shed stigma and shame. Finally, I reconceptualize feminist activism and collective memories outside of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and contribute to the literature on shame by analyzing how BuSSy identifies and counters shame’s silencing power.

An examination of the type of total quality management teaching and research carried out by European academic institutions

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 299-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ton Van Der Wiele ◽  
Barrie Dale ◽  
Roger Williams ◽  
Boudewijn Bertsch ◽  
Joanna Timmers
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Teaching And Research

scholarly journals Forskning i egen undervisningspraksis i høyere utdanning

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-251
Author(s):  
Sigrid Gjøtterud
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Report Quality ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
University Colleges ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

According to Regulations concerning appointment and promotion to teaching and research posts in universities and university colleges, teachers are required to equalize their educational and research scholarship. Pursuant to this regulation, the report “Quality Culture in Higher Education” (KD, 2016) requests that teachers research their teaching practice in order to create communities where educational and teaching questions are discussed. Action research offers methodologies and strategies for such research in our daily educational practice. There are multiple branches within the family of action research used as foundations for researching one’s own practice. In this article I present a selection, discuss similarities and point out some differences. At the end I discuss the potential I believe such research holds for teaching in higher education.

scholarly journals Feminists against Sexual Violence in War: The Question of Perpetrators and Victims Revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Korac
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Perpetrators And Victims ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Women In War

This article reflects upon feminist activism and analyses of sexual victimisation of women in war during the 1990s. It critically examines the reasons for the continuation of this type of violence against women, despite its recognition as a war crime; the recognition that marked one of the significant achievements of feminist activism during the last decade of the 20th century. The discussion points to the centrality of sexual violence in war for the system of gender based violence (GBV) against both women and men in war. It argues that a relational understanding of the gendered processes of victimisation in war is critical. This approach enables an acknowledgement that sexual violence in war and rape, as one of its expressions, is a violent political act that is highly gendered both in its causes and consequences, and, as such, it affects both women and men. This article provides an overall argument for the need of feminist scholarship and activism to engage with these differently situated experiences and practices of victimisation in war, to ‘unmake’ it.

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