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Professional Identity, Career Commitment, And Career Entrenchment Of Midlevel Student Affairs Professionals, Maureen E. Wilson, Debora L. Liddell, Amy S. Hirschy, Kira Pasquesi
Professional Identity, Career Commitment, And Career Entrenchment Of Midlevel Student Affairs Professionals, Maureen E. Wilson, Debora L. Liddell, Amy S. Hirschy, Kira Pasquesi
Higher Education and Student Affairs Faculty Publications
The purposes of this study were to identify factors of midlevel student affairs administrators’ professional identity and to examine the association of those factors to career commitment, career entrenchment, and demographic characteristics. Principal axis factor analysis derived 3 dimensions of professional identity: career contentment, community connection, and values congruence with the profession. Regression analyses conducted on 377 survey responses revealed that 3 of 4 demographic characteristics, all 3 career commitment subscales, and all 3 career entrenchment subscales were significantly associated with at least 1 of the professional identity subscales. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
Race And Historiography: Advancing A Critical-Realist Approach, Dafina-Lazarus Stewart
Race And Historiography: Advancing A Critical-Realist Approach, Dafina-Lazarus Stewart
Higher Education and Student Affairs Faculty Publications
This scholarly essay interrogates the seemingly necessary engagement of normative and essentialist characterizations of identity in the historical study of race in U.S. higher education. The author’s study of the experiences of Black collegians in private, liberal arts colleges in the Midwestern Great Lakes region between 1945 and 1965 grounds this discussion. Although engaging racial essentialism is necessary, the author presents alternative treatments of historicizing race to illustrate the benefits of a critical-realist approach to producing a synthetic cultural educational history.