Toward a Liberatory Praxis for Emerging Black Faculty

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
Leonard Taylor ◽  
Cameron C. Beatty
Keyword(s):  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
Liberatory Pedagogy ◽  
Personal Experiences

Authors of this chapter offer Black junior faculty a praxis that thoughtfully supports their efforts to advance justice issues in their classrooms, whether a central or ancillary focus. Liberatory pedagogy supports the development of critical consciousness in students, which advances equity and justice in and beyond the classroom. Applying liberatory pedagogy with attention to the unique experiences of emerging Black faculty helps to mitigate the challenges these faculty may face as educators and change agents. This also empowers emerging Black faculty to mobilize their personal experiences and reflections for the interrogation, (re)construction, and delivery of content, strategies, structures.

Representation and Salary Gaps by Race-Ethnicity and Gender at Selective Public Universities

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 343-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diyi Li ◽  
Cory Koedel
Keyword(s):  
Public Universities ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
Wage Gaps ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Wage Premiums ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

We use data from 2015–2016 to document faculty representation and wage gaps by race-ethnicity and gender in six fields at selective public universities. Consistent with widely available information, Black, Hispanic, and female professors are underrepresented and White and Asian professors are overrepresented in our data. Disadvantaged minority and female underrepresentation is driven predominantly by underrepresentation in science and math intensive fields. A comparison of senior and junior faculty suggests a trend toward greater diversity, especially in science and math intensive fields, because younger faculty are more diverse. However, Black faculty are an exception. We decompose racial-ethnic and gender wage gaps and show that academic field, experience, and research productivity account for most or all of the gaps. We find no evidence of wage premiums for individuals who improve diversity, although for Black faculty we cannot rule out a modest premium.

Sexism and Self-Healing in the University

1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Junior Faculty Member ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

While legislation exists which is intended to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex,the nature and extent of its impact remains indeterminate. Describing her personal experiences as a junior faculty member, Linda Nielsen delineates the subtle manifestations of prejudice that are often more pernicious than overt inequities. The author analyzes the impact of discrimination on her personal and professional life, comparing her perspective on the nature and efforts of prejudice with those of other researchers and female academicians.

scholarly journals Organizational Change: Employees Reaction Towards It

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Gentisa Furxhi ◽  
Sonela Stillo ◽  
Marinela Teneqexhi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Small Change ◽  
Reactions To Change ◽  
Behavior Models

The organizations, in the present days,are facing a dynamic environment which makes that no organization is immune towards change. Technological changes, innovations in communication, movements in the job market, globalization, make the organization face continuous challenges regarding competition, general non-stability of the macro-environment, merging and re-engineering of the work processes. To face these challenges, the organization reassesses the strategies, structure, policies, actions, processes and their culture. So the organizational change (OC) is inevitable in the environment where the organizations operate. Organizational change can be a very small change (additional) or it can be fundamental (transformative). Regardless of the form, function or size that the organizatioal change can make, there is an agreement between the community of the researchers that the pace of the organizational change has never been as high as in our days and it must be considered as a “feature which is present in the organizational life both in the operational level as well as in the strategic level” (By, 2005). Researchers already see the organizational change as a feature, present and continuous of the organizational life, inconsistent with the previous conceptualism that viewed the organizations as relatively stable systems, which developed over time through additional planned changes, which took place in regular and predicted phases (Burnes, 2004; Cummings -Worley, 2009). The famous expression “organizations don’t change, people do”, creates the need for change agents to understand that employees have different reactions to change initiative, because they have different personal experiences, motivation levels, socio-demographic characteristics, knowledges, values and different behavior models

scholarly journals Know to Change: Intellectualism, gatekeeping and knowledge production

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
QURAYSHA BIBI ISMAIL SOOLIMAN
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Know How ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The University

In order to know how to change one must be able to acknowledge what one does not know. The curriculum cannot be decolonised if those who manage its very problematic existence do not know, understand, or exhibit an inclination towards what needs to be transformed and what needs to be decolonised. This is because no effort is then made to acquire the necessary skills, approaches or knowledge. Central to knowledge production of relevance is the development of a critical consciousness and a recognition that education is politics, where the decolonisation process is imagined, whilst being cognisant of the purpose of and approach to knowledge. Ideologies, pedagogy and societal visions are then shaped because change and adaptation are necessary for survival and relevance. This paper examines these issues by referencing personal experiences during the #FMF protests at the University of Pretoria (UP) and the flowering of intellectualism which has been aborted in many instances by a corporate university that seeks subservience and sycophancy through processes such as gatekeeping. Often, the intellectual response has been silence, claiming ‘we are transforming,’ but this is questionable. A robust intellectual project should be in defence of human dignity where the politics of disposability is not entertained.

Twitter Usage Using Common Reference to Tinnitus

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Jianyuan Ni ◽  
Monica L. Bellon-Harn ◽  
Jiang Zhang ◽  
Yueqing Li ◽  
Vinaya Manchaiah
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
Share Information

Objective The objective of the study was to examine specific patterns of Twitter usage using common reference to tinnitus. Method The study used cross-sectional analysis of data generated from Twitter data. Twitter content, language, reach, users, accounts, temporal trends, and social networks were examined. Results Around 70,000 tweets were identified and analyzed from May to October 2018. Of the 100 most active Twitter accounts, organizations owned 52%, individuals owned 44%, and 4% of the accounts were unknown. Commercial/for-profit and nonprofit organizations were the most common organization account owners (i.e., 26% and 16%, respectively). Seven unique tweets were identified with a reach of over 400 Twitter users. The greatest reach exceeded 2,000 users. Temporal analysis identified retweet outliers (> 200 retweets per hour) that corresponded to a widely publicized event involving the response of a Twitter user to another user's joke. Content analysis indicated that Twitter is a platform that primarily functions to advocate, share personal experiences, or share information about management of tinnitus rather than to provide social support and build relationships. Conclusions Twitter accounts owned by organizations outnumbered individual accounts, and commercial/for-profit user accounts were the most frequently active organization account type. Analyses of social media use can be helpful in discovering issues of interest to the tinnitus community as well as determining which users and organizations are dominating social network conversations.

What Does a Doctoral Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling Bring to Speech-Language Pathology Programs?

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Agan
Keyword(s):  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, I will describe the potential contributions of interdisciplinary studies combining speech-language pathology and rehabilitation counseling in the preparation of future speech-language pathologists (SLPs). I will provide a brief introduction to the field of rehabilitation counseling and consider it from an SLP’s perspective. Next, I will describe some of my own personal experiences as they pertain to the intersecting cultures of work and disability and how these experiences influenced my practice as a master’s level SLP eventually leading to my decision to pursue a doctoral degree in rehabilitation counseling. I will describe the impact of this line of interdisciplinary study on my research and teaching. Finally, I will present some arguments about why concepts relevant to rehabilitation counseling are important to the mindset of SLPs.

Positioning Hospitalists as Change Agents

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
MARJORIE BESSEL
Keyword(s):  
Change Agents

Stakeholder Perspectives on the Stigma of Suicide Attempt Survivors

Crisis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay L. Sheehan ◽  
Patrick W. Corrigan ◽  
Maya A. Al-Khouja ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Public Stigma ◽  
Suicide Method ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

Abstract. Background: Past scholarly efforts to describe and measure the stigma surrounding suicide have largely viewed suicide stigma from the perspective of the general public. Aims: In the spirit of community-based participatory research (CBPR), the current study brought together a diverse stakeholder team to qualitatively investigate the suicide stigma as experienced by those most intimately affected by suicide. Method: Seven focus groups (n = 62) were conducted with suicide attempt survivors, family members of those who died by suicide, and suicide loss therapists. Results: Themes were derived for stereotypes (n = 30), prejudice (n = 3), and discrimination (n = 4). People who attempted suicide were seen as attention-seeking, selfish, incompetent, emotionally weak, and immoral. Participants described personal experiences of prejudice and discrimination, including those with health professionals. Conclusion: Participants experienced public stigma, self-stigma, and label avoidance. Analyses reveal that the stigma of suicide shares similarities with stereotypes of mental illness, but also includes some important differences. Attempt survivors may be subject to double stigma, which impedes recovery and access to care.

Muckraking the Change Agents

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 940-940
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Appelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Change Agents
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