Teaching Up

2020 ◽  
pp. 140-156
Author(s):  
Celeste Atkins
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Sexual Differences ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
White Faculty ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
College Classes

In the current political climate, racial, gender, and sexual differences are controversial topics, particularly on college campuses. This illuminates the need for increased focus on these issues in college classes. Although the literature on teaching about privilege is small, it is dominated by the voices of White faculty and almost completely focuses on racial issues. Marginalized faculty are rarely heard in this literature for our intersectional understanding of teaching about oppression and inequality. This chapter explores how female faculty (who also identify as working-class, queer, or as racial minorities) experience teaching about privilege. It builds an understanding of issues surrounding teaching about inequity from an intersectional perspective and moves the focus beyond tenure-track faculty. It expands an understanding of the experiences of faculty within the classroom and provides ways to support marginalized faculty in their teaching. Although the faculty interviewed here are sociologists, there are broad implications for teaching across disciplines.

Remembering the Past/Anticipating the Future: A Professor From the White Working Class Talks With a Survivor of the Holocaust About Our Troubled World

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 323-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Ellis ◽  
Jerry Rawicki
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Shed Light

This article extends the research of Jerry Rawicki and Carolyn Ellis who have collaborated for more than eight years on memories and consequences of the Holocaust. Focusing on Jerry’s memories of his experience during the Holocaust, they present dialogues that took place during five recorded interviews and follow-up conversations that reflect on the similarity of Hitler’s seizing of power in the 1930s to the meteoric rise of Donald Trump. Noting how issues of class and race were taking an increasingly prominent role in their conversations and collaborative writing, they also begin to examine discontent in the rural, White working class and Carolyn’s socialization within that community. These dialogues and reflections seek to shed light on the current political climate in America as Carolyn and Jerry struggle to cope with their fears and envision a hopeful path forward for their country.

Menem’s Argentina

1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torcuato S. Di Tella
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Class Composition ◽  
The Many ◽  
Combined Strategy ◽  
Leftist Parties ◽  
Second Coming

On 14 May, 1989, Argentinians Elected The Peronist Carlos Menem as president, causing the first constitutional transfer of power to the opposition since 1916. The situation is so unfamiliar that quite a few Peronists are behaving in their newly acquired positions, particularly in some cultural and mass communication spheres, as though the change had been the result of a violent takeover. After all, the first Peronism was heralded by the nationalist military coup of 1943, and its second coming, in 1973, was the result of a combined strategy of electioneering and guerrilla tactics. Those were the days when many Peronists repeated Mao Tse-tung's dictum that ‘power comes from the barrel of a gun’, and such intellectual habits die hard. Culturally the authoritarian components are still strong in Peronism, partly because most of the progressive, liberal or left-of-centre intelligentsia have flocked to the Radicales or to small leftist parties, renouncing their sympathies of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when they thought Peronism was the harbinger of revolution, owing to its working-class composition. This, of course, creates a cultural vacuum in Peronism, which has to be filled by whoever comes or remains from the old days. However, many things have changed in the Argentine political climate, and despite the many stragglers the country is becoming accustomed to a pluralist institutional structure.

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.

scholarly journals Women in Academic Atmospheric Sciences

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
David MacPhee ◽  
Silvia Sara Canetto
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic Rank ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
Atmospheric Sciences ◽  
Representation Of Women

Abstract Past studies suggest that the atmospheric sciences may have the fewest women of all geosciences occupations. The purpose of this study was to document the representation of women in the academic atmospheric sciences, specifically women’s representation among faculty in U.S. atmospheric sciences doctoral programs. A second purpose was to describe the demographic profile, educational preparation, and occupational destination of atmospheric sciences graduate students—as a way to gauge the characteristics and progress of women potentially in the pipeline for academic positions. Data on atmospheric sciences faculty (N = 813) were collected from the websites of 34 doctoral programs. Women constituted 17% of tenure-track and tenured atmospheric sciences faculty. Most departments (53%) had two or fewer female tenure-track or tenured faculty members. The proportion of female faculty members declined as academic rank increased. Institutional data for graduate students (N = 1,153) at a subset of these programs showed that at matriculation, women represented 39% of the students. The typical provenience disciplines of atmospheric sciences graduate students were majors with a low participation of women. Finally, significantly fewer women than men completed their doctoral degrees or pursued academic careers upon completion of the doctorate. Only 20% of doctoral degree completers who chose academia were women. Based on these findings and those of related studies, we forecast a persisting scarcity of female faculty members in U.S. atmospheric sciences doctoral programs.

scholarly journals Demographics of Tenure-Stream Music Faculty in Canadian Post-secondary Institutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-104
Author(s):  
Louis Bergonzi ◽  
Deanna Yerichuk ◽  
Kiera Galway ◽  
Elizabeth Gould
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Music Programs ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
White Faculty ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Tenure Track Faculty ◽  
Secondary Music ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Music Faculty

This study provides a snapshot of tenure at Canadian post-secondary music institutions, with a particular focus on gender and race/ethnicity. The data show tenure has been granted at high rates over a five-year period, and that women are no more or less likely to achieve tenure than men. However, more men than women hold both tenured and tenure-track positions, at a ratio of 2:1. The sample size of non-white faculty was not large enough to conduct statistical analyses about tenure rates in relation to race/ethnicity, although the extremely low rates of non-white tenure-track faculty suggest that diversity remains a concern in post-secondary music programs.

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