scholarly journals Fomenting Fear and Calling on Our Courage: Being Latinx on the Tenure Track in the Time of Trumpism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
White Supremacists

Our current political climate has made the campus climate on many universities increasingly hostile. As an assistant professor at a research-intensive university, I outline what it means to be a woman of color in a vulnerable academic discipline in the context of conservative state politics and the rise of the Alt-Right. I argue that the current political climate in which white supremacists have been emboldened, academic freedom attacked, and funding to institutions of higher education cut, has especially negative repercussions for minority academics in largely white institutions.

Campus Climate and the Theory of Gender Performativity

2019 ◽  
pp. 226-242
Author(s):  
Aaron Samuel Zimmerman ◽  
Andrew S. Herridge
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Experimental Performance ◽  
Recruitment Methods ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Measurement Tools

The objective of this chapter is to outline the theory of gender performativity and to discuss its implications for researchers and policymakers in higher education. This chapter will examine the manner in which the measurement tools and recruitment methods utilized by research in higher education may serve to reinforce particular ontological assumptions about gender. If institutions of higher education aspire to serve their diverse student populations as inclusively as possible, it may be valuable for researchers and policymakers to consider the notion that gender is a social construct that is continually open to experimental performance.

Sisyphus Leans Into the Professoriate

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-226
Author(s):  
Sharon Andrews ◽  
Janice Moore Newsum ◽  
Caroline M. Crawford ◽  
Noran L. Moffett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Current Point ◽  
Looking Back

Four faculty at different points in their professorial careers come together to share their own experiences, from doctoral studies through the current point in their professional career path within higher education. The faculty include a tenure-track Assistant Professor, a tenured Associate Professor submitting her initial bid for promotion to Professor, a tenured Associate Professor completing a successful bid for promotion to Professor, and a tenured Professor. These four faculty come together to share their diverse experiences, although patterns and themes are highlighted. The questions and prompts to which the authors responded fell into the specified topics of doctoral study reflections, tenure track faculty reflections, promotion and tenure reflections, professional landscape reflections, and looking back, looking forward.

White Institutional Presence: The Impact of Whiteness on Campus Climate

2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Lynn Gusa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Predominately White Institutions ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Cultural Ideology ◽  
Higher Education Retention ◽  
Education Retention ◽  
The Impact

In this conceptual paper, Diane Gusa highlights the salience of race by scrutinizing the culture of Whiteness within predominately White institutions of higher education. Using existing research in higher education retention literature, Gusa examines embedded White cultural ideology in the cultural practices, traditions, and perceptions of knowledge that are taken for granted as the norm at institutions of higher education. Drawing on marginalization and discrimination experiences of African American undergraduates to illustrate the performance of White mainstream ideology,Gusa names this embedded ideology White institutional presence (WIP) and assigns it four attributes: White ascendancy, monoculturalism, White estrangement,and White blindness.

scholarly journals Moving Beyond the Statements: The Need for Action to Address Structural Racism at Predominantly White Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
Monica Burke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
The Social

Higher education may once again be at a crossroad with the racial climate in the United States and what that means for college campuses. Consequently, institutions of higher education must commit to ensuring a supportive organizational structure for the social and psychosocial well-being of Black students and guaranteeing support resources for the psychological well-being of Black students. Such efforts require significant and enduring structural changes within institutions of higher education that should be ongoing and consistent.

Creating Entrepreneurial and Innovative Fundraising Opportunities Through Service-Learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen S. Meaney ◽  
Ting Liu ◽  
Lara M. Duke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Quality Instruction ◽  
Health Domains ◽  
Funding Opportunities ◽  
Faculty And Administrators

The rapidly increasing enrollment in kinesiology programs recognizes the important role of our academic discipline in promoting future professionals within the physical activity, fitness, wellness, education, sport, and allied health domains. Unprecedented growth in student interest in kinesiology offers faculty and administrators in higher education both exciting opportunities and difficult challenges. One significant concern facing kinesiology faculty is maintaining high-quality instruction within growing class sizes. Incorporating service-learning components within kinesiology curricula provides numerous benefits to students, faculty, institutions of higher education, and members of our local and global communities. In addition, service-learning has the potential to initiate innovative and entrepreneurial learning experiences and funding opportunities for students and faculty.

Save the World on Your Own Time

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Fish
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Stanley Fish ◽  
True Purpose ◽  
The World

What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In Save the World On Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same. When teachers offer themselves as moralists, political activists, or agents of social change rather than as credentialed experts in a particular subject and the methods used to analyze it, they abdicate their true purpose. And yet professors now routinely bring their political views into the classroom and seek to influence the political views of their students. Those who do this will often invoke academic freedom, but Fish suggests that academic freedom, correctly understood, is the freedom to do the academic job, not the freedom to do any job that the professor so chooses. Fish insists that a professor's only obligation is "to present the material in the syllabus and introduce students to state-of-the-art methods of analysis. Not to practice politics, but to study it; not to proselytize for or against religious doctrines, but to describe them; not to affirm or condemn Intelligent Design, but to explain what it is and analyze its appeal." Given that hot-button issues such as Holocaust denial, free speech, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are regularly debated in classrooms across the nation, Save the World On Your Own Time is certain to spark fresh debate--and to incense both liberals and conservatives alike--about the true purpose of higher education in America.

The Jurisprudence of the Dar Es Salaam Declaration on Academic Freedom

1991 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 128-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Issa G. Shivji
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Formal Recognition

On 19 April, 1990, 12 delegates from autonomous staff associations of six institutions of higher education in Tanzania adopted the Dar es Salaam Declaration on Academic Freedom and Social Responsibility of Academics. The inaugural workshop was also attended by representatives from some eight other institutions of higher education who do not as yet have staff associations. A student representative from the proposed autonomous students' union of the University of Dar es Salaam was also invited. They all attended as observers who participated fully in the deliberations of the workshop although they did not have a right to vote.In terms of article 51, the Declaration has now come into force as it has been ratified by the membership of two-thirds of the staff associations attending the inaugural workshop. Following the formal launch of the Declaration in July 1991, the next step will be for the staff associations to pressurize the respective administrations at their institutions to accord the Declaration formal recognition. Eventually, the Government itself will be approached to accord the Declaration political acceptance.

Diversity in Kinesiology: Theoretical and Contemporary Considerations

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel R. Hodge ◽  
Doris R. Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Organizational Socialization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Predominantly White Institutions ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Hispanic Faculty

In this article, the authors engage in discourse centrally located in the organizational socialization of Black and Hispanic kinesiology faculty and students within institutions of higher education. First, our commentary is situated in the theoretical framework of organizational socialization in regards to insight about the plight of Black and Hispanic kinesiology professionals. Next, data are presented that highlight the status of Black and Hispanic faculty in academe. Informed by previous research, the authors also discuss the socialization experiences of such faculty in kinesiology programs and departments, particularly at predominantly White institutions of higher education. Lastly, challenges are identified that are associated with recruiting, hiring, retaining, securing tenured status, and advancing Black and Hispanic faculty at leading doctorate-granting institutions in the United States.

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