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Enacting Efficacy In Early Career: Narratives Of Agency, Growth, And Identity, Elizabeth K. Niehaus, Jillian Reading, Crystal E. Garcia

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

Aim/Purpose: To explore how early career faculty in the field of higher education administration develop and enact their personal and professional identities.

Background: Participants sought to understand themselves, to understand their environments and the “rules” of the academic “game,” and to reconcile conflicts between their own values and identities and the expectations and culture of their environments.

Methodology: In-depth case studies of seventeen early career scholars in the field.

Contribution: The participants’ experiences underscore important implications for mentoring and socialization that takes into consideration the unique motivation and identity development of aspiring and new faculty members.

Findings: Identifies the early …