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The Job Market For College Grads, Michael Hemesath
The Job Market For College Grads, Michael Hemesath
Administration Publications
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Creating My Own Story: Catholic Women’S College Students Narrating Their Lives, Kathryn A. E. Enke, Kelly T. Winters, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman
Creating My Own Story: Catholic Women’S College Students Narrating Their Lives, Kathryn A. E. Enke, Kelly T. Winters, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman
Administration Publications
Given the complex and gendered messages college women receive about their future professional and personal lives, a woman’s college experiences play an important role in helping her make difficult life choices. In this article, we present a narrative analysis of the envisioned futures of students at two Catholic women’s colleges in the Midwestern United States. Participants drew on a number of narrative themes when creating their rhetorical future lives, including sequencing or juggling multiple priorities, opting out of future work or family roles, using overarching principles to make decisions about future roles, and maintaining resistance to planning. Our findings suggest …
Discourses Of Whiteness: White Students At Catholic Women’S Colleges (Dis)Engaging Race, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, Kelly T. Winters, Kathryn A. E. Enke
Discourses Of Whiteness: White Students At Catholic Women’S Colleges (Dis)Engaging Race, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, Kelly T. Winters, Kathryn A. E. Enke
Administration Publications
To better understand how White college women understand and are influenced by whiteness, we discursively analyzed data from interviews and focus groups with 25 White seniors at two Catholic women’s colleges. Findings suggest that participants understood whiteness through discourses of insignificance, nominal difference, responsibility, and transformation and that these understandings affected students’ college experiences and envisioned futures.