Walking in the Ivory Tower: Differential Belonging and the Architexture of Home

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110483
Author(s):  
Gust A. Yep
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Relational Patterns ◽  
The U.S

Deploying Carrillo Rowe’s concept of differential belonging and extending McCune’s notion of architexture to encompass transnational sensory registers, affective valences and intensities, relational patterns, and ideological and political textures, I describe and examine the complexities of home as a racial, gender, and sexual non-normative transnational subject in the U.S. academy. More specifically, I narrate two scenes of my autoethnography to make sense of my transnational experiences of academic home in U.S. spaces of higher education. In the article, I first discuss the concept of differential belonging and the architexture of home before I embark on my autoethnographic scenes and conclude with an exploration of how people “back home” imagine my life as a faculty member of a major U.S. university.

Architects of Change in the Ivory Tower

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. West ◽  
Tamara Bertrand Jones
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Black Feminist Thought ◽  
Student Affairs Administrators ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Collective Movement ◽  
The U.S

Although it is critical to foreground discussions about the historical vestiges of racist and sexist ideologies that are embedded in the experiences of contemporary Black women in the academy, it is equally important to highlight the role these women are playing in challenging the existence of these structures. There are a growing number of Black women student affairs administrators and faculty engaging in professional counterspaces as a strategy to re-architect the reality of their lives in the academy. Two such programs in the U.S., the African American Women's Summit (AAWS) and the Sisters of the Academy Research BootCamp (RBC), were created by, for, and about Black women employed in higher education to redress the problematic environments these women encounter in academia. In this chapter, the authors explore how tenets of Black feminist thought (BFT) and collective movement activism are integral to the AAWS and RBC and clarify the role Black women student affairs administrators and faculty engaged in these professional counterspaces are playing as architects of change in the ivory tower.

scholarly journals Redefining Roles: Female Scholars' Reflections and Recommendations for Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Kelly J. Brochu ◽  
Amanda J. Jensen ◽  
Regina M. M. Robinson ◽  
Trina R. Bryant ◽  
Danielle R. Desjardins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Education Leadership ◽  
Higher Education Leadership ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Many ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
The U.S

The objective of this article is to amplify the stories of female doctoral students and their passage through role conflicting periods of uncertainty and trauma. Specifically, this article highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic and racial unrest in the U.S. have impacted women pursuing doctorates in education. In addition to sharing personal reflections and experiences, the authors have outlined resources and recommendations for those who support doctoral students. Through the diverse perspectives of five students and one faculty member in the EdD in Higher Education Leadership program at Regis College, this article explores the lived experiences of second-year doctoral students during an incredible period of uncertainty. Douglas T. Hall’s model of coping serves to frame content around the many conflicting roles these students have been navigating and found to be exacerbated during the year 2020. This article seeks to empower leaders to re-envision approaches to support doctoral students through future crises and periods of uncertainty.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF TFP IN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS – APPLICATION OF MALMQUIST INDICES

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna WOLSZCZAK-DERLACZ
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Distance Measures ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Total Revenue ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Malmquist Indices ◽  
The U.S

In this study we apply Malmquist methodology, based on the estimation of distance measures through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), to a sample of 500 universities (in 10 European countries and the U.S.) over the period 2000 to 2010 in order to assess and compare their productivity. On average, a rise in TFP is registered for the whole European sample (strongest for Dutch and Italian HEIs), while the productivity of American HEIs suffered a slight decline. Additionally, we show that productivity growth is negatively associated with size of the institution and revenues from government, and positively with regional development in the case of the European sample, while American HEI productivity growth is characterised by a negative association with GDP and a positive one with the share of government resources out of total revenue.

scholarly journals But I Don’t Understand You: One Faculty’s Observations of the Challenges Facing International Healthcare Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl O. DuBose
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
International Students ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Large Role ◽  
Quality Patient Care ◽  
Healthcare Program ◽  
Study Abroad Program

International students face many challenges when pursuing a degree in higher education. Communication and cultural differences are typically cited as the most challenging aspects of any study abroad program. Students attempting to complete a healthcare program face sometimes insurmountable issues, as communication, cultural differences, and discrimination play a large role in providing quality patient care. This paper is a commentary on my experiences as a faculty member with various international students enrolled in healthcare programs in the southeastern United States.

scholarly journals International Student Transitions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sharif Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The U.S

Andrade and James Hartshorn (2019) surrounds the transition that international students encounter when they attend universities in developed countries in pursuit of higher education. Andrade and James Hartshorn (2019) describe how some countries like Australia and the United Kingdom host more international students than the United States (U.S.) and provides some guidelines for the U.S. higher education institutions to follow to host more international students. This book contains seven chapters.

scholarly journals The necessary requirements needed for employing e. learning in the (teaching staff) in the faculty member of education, from the point of view of the teaching staff in sudan university

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatem Abdel Maged El-Sadek , Rehab Bashir Hassan Al-Awad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Method

The study aimed to identify the necessary requirements needed for employing e. learning in the (teaching staff) in the faculty memberof education, from the point of view of the teaching staff. In this study the researcher employed the analytical descriptive method and the size of the sample in which the study was applied was (127) individualsof the teaching staff with a degree of Assistant Professorand above The researcher has employed questionnaire technique as a study tool. The most important findings of the study are: The study has come to the fact that the majority of the researchers managed to answer the study areas which are summarized in (the requirements needed for employing e. learning by the teaching staff، which was specified by this study، these requirements are vitally important from the point of view of the teaching staff. The most important requirements for the use of e-learning in the university faculty member. It consists in possessing the competencies of preparing courses electronically, which means designing the content or electronic curriculum in accordance with the principles of educational design. The most important recommendations of the study are: Providing all the requirements needed to put e. learning into practice (for the teaching staff members) which was determine by the study to employ e. learning in the institutions of the higher education in Sudan.  

scholarly journals When the Experimental Lab is Itself the Experiment: Making Someone Else’s Design Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Jesse Strycker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Design Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

The redesign of learning spaces has been a growing trend in education, especially higher education. The redesign of such spaces takes time and involves a variety of stakeholders, sometimes resulting in ill-defined designs. This can be exacerbated when individuals leading such efforts depart and there is not a consensus on the design, sometimes leading to vendors having a disproportionate say in final implementations. Understanding these differences and finding a way forward can fall on new stakeholders who are tasked with supporting such spaces after most of the foundational decisions have been made and/or carried out. This case explores one faculty member and designer’s experiences with helping to both design for and define such an ill-defined space. Included in this case are the story of the design of the space pieced together from before the author started his employment and the story since he became a stakeholder, stumbling blocks encountered after the space was built, strategies employed in the interim, discussing a path forward, and finally sharing realizations made during the process which will help his future efforts with designing such multi-stakeholder spaces in the future.

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