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The Challenges Of Minoritized Contingent Faculty In Higher Education, Edna Chun, Alvin Evans
The Challenges Of Minoritized Contingent Faculty In Higher Education, Edna Chun, Alvin Evans
Navigating Careers in Higher Education Series
The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education offers a probing and unvarnished look at the employment challenges of these faculty members in four-year institutions. With dramatic shifts in the faculty workforce and nearly three-quarters of instructional positions in United States institutions now off the tenure track, contingent faculty have become the essential, frontline workers of higher education. Remarkably little research attention has focused on the experiences of minoritized contingent faculty in this new academic underclass. Based on in-depth interviews coupled with extensive research, the book highlights the double marginalization that can occur due to secondary employment status in …
Community Voices Magazine - Decolonize With Indigenous Voices, East Tennessee State University, Office Of Equity And Inclusion
Community Voices Magazine - Decolonize With Indigenous Voices, East Tennessee State University, Office Of Equity And Inclusion
Community Voices
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Community Voices Magazine - Begin By Believing!, East Tennessee State University, Office Of Equity And Inclusion
Community Voices Magazine - Begin By Believing!, East Tennessee State University, Office Of Equity And Inclusion
Community Voices
Walk through what freedom means with a local political historian.
Learn how to respectfully attend a Powwow this summer or fall.
Look at locals working tireless to end gender based violence.
Transforming Leadership Pathways For Humanities Professionals In Higher Education, Roze Hentschell, Catherine E. Thomas
Transforming Leadership Pathways For Humanities Professionals In Higher Education, Roze Hentschell, Catherine E. Thomas
Navigating Careers in Higher Education Series
Transforming Leadership Pathways for Humanities Professionals in Higher Education includes thirteen essays from a variety of contributors investigating how humanities professionals grapple with the opportunities and challenges of leadership positions. Written by insiders sharing their lived experience, this collection provides an authentic look at the multiple roles humanities specialists play, as well as offers strategies for professional growth, sustenance, and satisfaction. The collection also considers the relationship between disciplinary areas of study, academic training, and the valuable skill sets and habits of mind that serve higher education leaders.
While Transforming Leadership Pathways emphasizes that a leadership route in higher education …
Community Voice Magazine - Putting Pressure On Wounds; How To Help And Restore Hope In Turbulent Times, East Tennessee State University, Office Of Equity And Inclusion
Community Voice Magazine - Putting Pressure On Wounds; How To Help And Restore Hope In Turbulent Times, East Tennessee State University, Office Of Equity And Inclusion
Community Voices
MMIWG...Step up and correct this long term epidemic-protect indigenous women and girls!
This Means War...read about our local LGBTQ+ neighbors who are staring down the barrels of erasure and genocide.
Control is the Goal...Learn about the troubling and racialized history of the police in the United States.
The Strategic Application Of Alternative Grading To Improve Retention And Enhance Equity (Spring 2023), Teshome Abebe, Michael Gillespie
The Strategic Application Of Alternative Grading To Improve Retention And Enhance Equity (Spring 2023), Teshome Abebe, Michael Gillespie
EIU Think Tank Reports and White Papers
Universities across the United States have been using the Pass/Fail grading system for a variety of reasons and in many different ways. There are so many uses of the system as there are universities.
In general, universities have used the Pass/Fail grading system to: help reduce stress and pressure on students; provide more flexibility in course selection and encourage students to explore and pursue interest without fear of damaging their GPA; reduce perceived discrimination and bias in grading, providing more equitable opportunities for all students regardless of race, socioeconomic status or prior academic background; and to improve retention rates by …
Unf Stars 2023 Poster Presentation: “Fostering Student Motivation In Urban Title I Elementary Schools: Integrated Stem For Equitable Learning Experiences”, Raven Robinson-Wilson, Meghan Parkinson, Rui Wang
Unf Stars 2023 Poster Presentation: “Fostering Student Motivation In Urban Title I Elementary Schools: Integrated Stem For Equitable Learning Experiences”, Raven Robinson-Wilson, Meghan Parkinson, Rui Wang
STEM Research
This poster was presented at UNF STARS 2023 to share our research based on data from Project InTERSECT teachers’ classroom videos (and teacher reflections), focusing on showcasing equitable integrated STEM instructional practices. As the instructional process is undergirded by a myriad of psychological processes, a focus on integrated STEM instructional practices can provide better understanding about the facilitation of students’ learning experiences. Our research examines teachers’ integrated STEM instructional practices for fostering student motivation for learning in urban, Title I elementary schools through need supportive teaching and culturally responsive pedagogy frameworks. The observations of teachers’ integrated STEM classroom instruction yielded …