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The Hidden Curriculum: Candidate Diversity In Educational Leadership Preparation., Zorka Karanxha, Vonzell Agosto, Aarti A. Bellara
The Hidden Curriculum: Candidate Diversity In Educational Leadership Preparation., Zorka Karanxha, Vonzell Agosto, Aarti A. Bellara
Vonzell Agosto
The authors describe a process of self-assessment attuned to equity and justice in the policies and practices that affect student diversity, namely, those associated with the selection of candidates. The disproportionate rate of rejection for applicants from underrepresented groups and the unsystematic process of applicant selection operated as hidden curriculum affecting the opportunities for the program to enhance meaningful relationships among diverse groups of students. The authors describe institutional and sociopolitical conditions, and individual actions reflecting a faculty’s will to policy. Faculty efforts supported and challenged systemic change to increase racial and ethnic diversity among aspiring educational administrators.
Underrepresented Women In Higher Education: An Overview, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Vonzell Agosto
Underrepresented Women In Higher Education: An Overview, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Vonzell Agosto
Vonzell Agosto
This themed issue explicates the experiences of underrepresented women in higher education institutions and the externally imposed isolation and devaluing of their daily work. These articles are drawn from the experiences of Black and other non-White female faculty and are designed to provide a view of academe that is often neglected in academic literature.
Underrepresented Women In Higher Education: An Overview, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Vonzell Agosto
Underrepresented Women In Higher Education: An Overview, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Vonzell Agosto
Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
This themed issue explicates the experiences of underrepresented women in higher education institutions and the externally imposed isolation and devaluing of their daily work. These articles are drawn from the experiences of Black and other non-White female faculty and are designed to provide a view of academe that is often neglected in academic literature.
Underrepresented Women In Higher Education: An Overview, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Vonzell Agosto
Underrepresented Women In Higher Education: An Overview, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Vonzell Agosto
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty Publications
Central to understanding how social justice and diversity are articulated in institutions of higher education, are the experiences of female faculty and administrators from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the U.S. system of higher education. According to the Urban Dictionary's (1999 - 2011) website, the word "work" as in "you better work" (1999 - 2011a), or "workin' it" (1999 - 2011b), is used to give praise or approval to another person and is analogous to: