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Faculty Of Color Viewpoints Regarding Recruitment, Retention, And Academic Climate At Texas Community Colleges, Caitlin Alexa Graves
Faculty Of Color Viewpoints Regarding Recruitment, Retention, And Academic Climate At Texas Community Colleges, Caitlin Alexa Graves
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The recruitment and retention of faculty of color is a critical issue within higher education institutions, however, the research is lacking within community colleges. Community colleges enroll over half of all non-White students in higher education, more than any other type of higher education institution; however, the faculty do not reflect the student population. Faculty of color face potential suppression, omission, isolation, and lack of belonging. This study illuminated faculty of color’s experience at community colleges and the culture at community college for these faculty. In this qualitative, interpretative phenomenological study, the researcher explored the viewpoints of faculty of color …
Leadership Lapse: Laundering Systemic Bias Through Student Evaluations, Debra S. Austin
Leadership Lapse: Laundering Systemic Bias Through Student Evaluations, Debra S. Austin
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This article discusses how law schools' use of student evaluation of teaching (SET) for high-stakes faculty employment decisions amounts to a lapse in leadership because using biased evaluations allows colleges and universities to discriminate against faculty whose identities deviate from white male heteronormativity.
Smiling Faces And Colored Spaces: The Experiences Of Faculty Of Color Pursing Tenure In The Academy, Gregory Diggs, Dorothy Garrison-Wade, Diane Estrada, Rene Galindo
Smiling Faces And Colored Spaces: The Experiences Of Faculty Of Color Pursing Tenure In The Academy, Gregory Diggs, Dorothy Garrison-Wade, Diane Estrada, Rene Galindo
Dorothy Garrison-Wade
Through a comprehensive literature review, this article identifies and discusses barriers to recruitment and retention of faculty of color. Marginalization, racism and sexism manifested as unintended barriers are presented as a few of the barriers faculty of color face in successfully navigating the tenure process. Informed by this literature review, we conducted a self-study that presents the experiences of four faculty of color navigating the tenure process in a predominately white Research Institution. The purpose of this study was to share the experiences of three junior faculty of color as they navigate the tenure process, and one tenured faculty of …