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Rankism In Higher Education: A Critical Inquiry Of Staff Experiences, Erin M. Christensen-Mandel
Rankism In Higher Education: A Critical Inquiry Of Staff Experiences, Erin M. Christensen-Mandel
Higher Education: Doctoral Research Projects
Missing from the discussions of inequitable treatment of employees in higher education are the experiences of staff members. In work interactions, staff are frequently treated differently (often as inferiors), depending on their level of education and their role in the hierarchy on the non-academic side of an institution (Anonymous, 2006; Young, Anderson & Stewart, 2015). This difference in treatment has been termed, “rankism” in the broad sense or “hierarchical microaggressions” for smaller incidents and is especially troublesome as higher education is presumed to create upward mobility and lead towards a more equitable society (Young et al., 2015).
The research questions …