Women Student Affairs Leaders Advancing and Succeeding in Higher Education Senior Leadership Teams

Race has been one of the most controversial subjects studied by scholars across a wide range of disciplines as they debate whether races actually exist and whether race matters in determining life, social, and educational outcomes. Missing from the literature are investigations into various ways race gets applied in research, especially in higher education and student affairs. This review explores how scholars use race in their framing, operationalizing, and interpreting of research on college students. Through a systematic content analysis of three higher education journals over five years, this review elucidates scholars’ varied racial applications as well as potential implicit and explicit messages about race being sent by those applications and inconsistencies within articles. By better understanding how race is used in higher education and student affairs research, scholars can be more purposeful in their applications to reduce problematic messages about the essentialist nature of race and deficit framing of certain racial groups.

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Mixed Foundations: Supporting and Empowering Multiracial Student Organizations

JCSCORE ◽

10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2015.1.2.54-85 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 54-85

Author(s):

Victoria K. Malaney ◽

Kendra Danowski

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Student Affairs ◽

Leadership Skills ◽

Student Organizations ◽

Mixed Race ◽

College Campuses ◽

Institutional Practices ◽

Working Through

This paper presents an overview of multiracial student organizing and organizations on college campuses. The authors address common challenges that multiracial student organizations face in higher education, how student affairs staff can challenge institutional practices that perpetuate monoracism, and how to support and empower mixed race students to effectively develop strong leadership skills. Several recommendations for working through political and administrative hurdles are also provided.

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The Student Affairs Profession in the Academic Marketplace

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1794 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joan B. Hirt

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Student Affairs ◽

Good Practice ◽

Student Affairs Professionals ◽

Academic Affairs ◽

Seven Principles ◽

Market Driven ◽

Principles Of Good Practice ◽

The Way

This essay compares the narratives that have emerged in recent years to describe the higher education enterprise with the narratives used to describe student affairs endeavors. I posit that the way in which student affairs professionals present their agenda is out of sync with the market-driven culture of the academy. The seven Principles of Good Practice are used to illustrate the incongruence between student affairs and academic affairs narratives on campus. I offer ways that those Principles can be recast to be more closely aligned with the new academic marketplace.

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Book Review: A Legal Guide for Student Affairs Professionals

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1060 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Donald D. Gehring

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Student Affairs ◽

Student Affairs Professionals ◽

The Law

Bill Kaplin and Barbara Lee let their readers know up front - on the book's cover in fact - that "A Legal Guide for Student Affairs Professionals" has been adapted from their highly regarded third edition of "The Law of Higher Education" [LHE3](1995) ("the big red book," as my students refer to it). The authors have included material already presented in LHE3 but have completely reorganized, updated, and edited the earlier work.

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Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos: The Dean of Deans

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1337 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard J. Herdlein

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Student Affairs ◽

Historical Research ◽

University Of Pittsburgh ◽

Student Personnel ◽

Dean Of Women ◽

History Of ◽

Personnel Administration ◽

The University

The scholarship of student affairs has neglected to carefully review its contextual past and, in the process, failed to fully integrate historical research into practice. The story of Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos and the history of the Dean of Womens Program at the University of Pittsburgh,191941, helps us to reflect on the true reality of our work in higher education. Although seemingly a time in the distant past, Thyrsa Amos embodied the spirit of student personnel administration that shines ever so bright to thisd ay. The purpose of this research is to provide some of thatcontext and remind us of the values that serve as foundations of the profession.

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A phenomenological inquiry into the influence of crucible experiences on the leadership development of Black women in higher education senior leadership

Educational Management Administration & Leadership ◽

10.1177/17411432211019417 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 174114322110194

Author(s):

Nuchelle L Chance

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Leadership Development ◽

Black Women ◽

Black People ◽

Senior Leadership ◽

Women In Higher Education ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Phenomenological Inquiry ◽

Adverse Experiences ◽

Verbal Assault

Supported by the Crucibles of Leadership theory, this article explores how adverse experiences influence the leadership development of Black women in higher education senior leadership. I use phenomenology to explore how these leaders’ adverse lived experiences manifested as transformative crucible experiences with resilience, thus promoting leadership development. Black people have been continuously subject to adversity, while Black women have overcome the compounded adversities resulting from their intersectional identities. Reported lived adversities included physical, sexual, and verbal assault and abuse, adverse childhood experiences such as growing up in poverty, being raised by single parents, being subject to bullying, losing loved ones, discrimination, and health issues. Black women are resilient, and education has proven to be a lifeline regarding adversity, thus promoting leadership capabilities. They use adversity as fuel to overcome adverse crucible experiences, thus developing the necessary skills to prepare them for leadership. The results further reveal that Black women in higher education senior leadership experienced significant adverse experiences that manifested as crucible experiences by overcoming adversity. The findings reveal an association between their ability to develop the necessary leadership skills to advance their career and their lived adverse experiences.

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The Future of Student Affairs: A Guide to Student Development for Tomorrow's Higher Education

The Journal of Higher Education ◽

10.2307/1978674 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 100

Author(s):

Alvin Lipsetz ◽

Theodore K. Miller ◽

Judith S. Prince

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Student Affairs ◽

Student Development ◽

The Future

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Understanding race and educational leadership in higher education

Management in Education ◽

10.1177/0892020618791002 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 192-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jason Arday

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Educational Leadership ◽

Senior Leadership ◽

Leadership Roles ◽

Career Trajectory ◽

Senior Leaders ◽

Organizational Barriers ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Leadership In Higher Education ◽

The Uk

The dearth of representation regarding Black and Ethnic Minorities (BME) in senior educational leadership roles within higher education (HE) has become a salient issue as egalitarian notions associated with equality and diversity continue to be contradicted by university institutions, despite increased calls for greater diversification. Educational leadership in higher education within the United Kingdom (UK), particularly when aligned to the primacy of race, remains oblivious to some of the organizational barriers encountered by BME academics attempting to navigate a career trajectory towards senior leadership. The diversification of senior leaders within the Academy in the UK has increasingly become an issue that, although prevalent, has stagnated owing to the lack of visible BME senior leaders and penetrative change to address the disparity regarding recruitment and promotion of more BME academics to leadership hierarchies. This article draws on a collective biography methodology, which will utilize narratives from three BME academics in senior leadership positions within higher education in the UK, in an attempt to illuminate the challenges that saturate the Academy, concerning leadership opportunities and career pathways for BME academics. The issues drawn upon identify synergies between constructions of race and leadership, whilst considering the interplay between these two vehicles when situated within a higher education context.

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Student Affairs and Hurricane Katrina: Contextual Perspectives from Five Institutions of Higher Education in New Orleans

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1762 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Susan K Gardner ◽

Kristy Miller ◽

Marco J Barker ◽

Jennifer Loftin ◽

Marla Erwin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Decision Making ◽

Student Affairs ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Institutions Of Higher Education ◽

Policy Practice ◽

Before And After ◽

Institutional Contexts ◽

Public Versus Private

Fifteen student affairs administrators from five institutions of higher education in New Orleans were interviewed regarding their experiences immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina and how the crisis affected their work. Participants were chosen for their diversity among racial, gender, and institutional contexts. Analyses of the interviews resulted in four themes that describe the differences between how public versus private institutional cultures affected these administrators responses and the decision making that occurred in the wake of the storm. These themes include (a) decision making, (b) communication, (c) resources and limitations, and (d) student affairs status. Implications for policy, practice, and research are included.

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