Download or read book African American Faculty Perceptions of how Campus Racial Climate and the Quest for Tenure Influence Their Interaction with African American Students at Predominantly White Institutions written by Daryl C. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American faculty at predominantly White institutions face a conundrum. African American students experience an achievement gap and Student Involvement Theory suggests that faculty interaction has greater impact on student achievement than any other type of involvement. These faculty may feel an obligation to serve such students yet simultaneously feel disincentivized to do so in order to satisfy tenure requirements, which typically do not prioritize service. This study sought to discover how these faculty perceive this challenge within the context of campus racial climate. Campus Racial Climate was the conceptual framework and Critical Race Theory was the theoretical framework employed in this study. Information was collected by analyzing institutional documents, interviewing faculty, and conducting member-checking to verify accuracy. Three themes regarding faculty perceptions about student-faculty interaction emerged: Faculty Experiences, Student Rapport, and Institutional Milieu. This study also arrived at four key conclusions. First, homophily (gravitation toward those who share important social characteristics) influenced perceptions of student-faculty interaction more than campus racial climate. Negative campus racial climates have been noted to motivate African American student-faculty interaction and were believed to be a primary impetus for it. However, this study revealed that the motivation for such interaction exists whether the climate is positive or negative. Homophily, was perceived as having a constant and direct influence on views about student-faculty interaction while campus racial climate was regarded as having a contextual and indirect influence on the same. Second, campus racial climate did not directly influence views about African American student-faculty interaction. However, campus environment (without respect to race) and race (without respect to campus environment) did influence perceptions. Third, the quest for tenure tempered interaction as the quantity of relationships reduced while their quality deepened. This reduction has both faculty and institutional origins. Finally, campus racial climate influenced experiences as faculty members but the climate was not perceived identically. This led to the development of the Racial Climate Relativity model which posits that racial climate is experienced as a function of Departmental Racial Climate, Campus Characteristics, Campus Location, Faculty Attributes, Student Relationships, and Administrative Commitment.
Download or read book A Long Way to Go written by Darrell Cleveland and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Long Way to Go: Conversations about Race by African American Faculty and Graduate Students highlights the experiences and coping strategies of faculty members and graduate students pursuing Ph.D.s who have successfully navigated the academy despite hostile environments and hurdles that cause many to avoid or leave the academy. African American students and faculty often face problems such as isolation within a white environment, the misinterpretation of confidence as aggressiveness, and the need to work twice as hard as white peers in order to be taken seriously in their chosen careers. This book will assist both doctoral students and junior faculty in successfully completing the graduate school experience and transitioning into tenure-track positions, and will be of great interest to all higher education faculty and administrators who must address the complex issues of diversity in recruiting and retaining graduate students and faculty.
Download or read book Faculty of Color in Academe written by Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, in-depth study of the inequalities based on ethnic and racial differences in the professional environment of high education.
Download or read book Exploring the Role of African American Student faculty staff Interactions in a Community College Setting written by Yolanda Isaacs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American students are enrolling in four-year universities and community colleges in the hope of receiving a degree; however, their rate of degree attainment at the latter institutions in particular continues to be troubling. Although community colleges are making efforts to improve the graduation rates of African-American students, more institutional strategies are needed to address this concern. The purpose of the study was to explore how the role of African-American faculty and staff can affect the success of African-American students in a community college setting. The researcher investigated African-American students' perceptions and experiences regarding how African-American faculty and staff members have influenced them to continue their education. Using a phenomenological research method, the researcher listened to the stories of seven African-American students regarding how their interactions with African-American faculty and staff members encouraged them to persist in college. The themes that emerged included (1) race and shared experiences matter; (2) the role of surrogate parents; (3) "a place like home"; (4) interpersonal communicative connection; (5) the importance of role models and visualizing success; and (6) interactions provide motivation. African-American faculty/staff-student interactions were viewed as essential to supporting the student participants' academic and personal goals as community college students.
Download or read book We re Not OK written by Antija M. Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, only 6% of the 1.5 million faculty in degree-granting postsecondary institutions is Black. Research shows that, while many institutions tout the idea of diversity recruitment, not much progress has been made to diversify faculty ranks, especially at research-intensive institutions. We're Not Ok shares the experiences of Black faculty to take the reader on a journey, from the obstacles of landing a full-time faculty position through the unique struggles of being a Black educator at a predominantly white institution, along with how these deterrents impact inclusion, retention, and mental health. The book provides practical strategies and recommendations for graduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators, along with changemakers, to make strides in diversity, equity, and inclusion. More than a presentation of statistics and anecdotes, it is the start of a dialogue with the intent of ushering actual change that can benefit Black faculty, their students, and their institutions.
Download or read book Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings written by William Bernard Harvey and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American university and college presidents, vice presidents, and deans offer firsthand reflections on their encounters with racism in higher education and the strategies they use to overcome obstacles they face.
Download or read book African American Students and African American Professors Perceptions of Campus Climate at a Predominantly White University in the New England Region of the United States written by Lynn B Elfe and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Faculty Members Responses to Racial Diversity at Predominantly White Institutions written by Martha Lillian Anne Stassen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: cognitive processing tendencies) and their ideological and interpersonal responses, amplifying either their positive or negative affect.
Download or read book The Influence of African American Faculty Members on African American Student Retention and Graduation at a Predominantly White Institution written by Monica D. Kelsey-Brown and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Faculty at Hbcus written by SaFiya Hoskins and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dr. SaFiya D. Hoskins' study, 'White Faculty at HBCUs: Perceptions of Racial Climate, ' white faculty members shared their experiences in making sense of their perceptions of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses. As such, participants discussed their perceptions of diversity, campus involvement, collegial and faculty-student interactions. In addition, situations they encountered or perceived as discrimination or racial conflict were discussed. Through the participants' shared experiences, both positive and negative, themes emerged relative to their perceptions of racial climate. This study gives voice to a population that is absent from the literature on faculty at HBCUs. Furthermore, this study can inform policy and practice about enhancing racial climate for faculty at HBCUs and Historically White Institutions (HWIs). -Ubiquitous Press
Download or read book The Agony of Education written by Joe R. Feagin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.
Download or read book Black Faculty in the Academy written by Fred A. Bonner II and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through candid discussions and personal counter-narrative stories, Black Faculty in the Academy explores the experiences and challenges faced by faculty of color in academe. Black faculty in predominantly White college and university settings must negotiate multiple and competing identities while struggling with issues of marginality, otherness, and invisible barriers. This important book illuminates how faculty can develop a professional identity that leads to success in academe, while at the same time remaining true to cultural and personal identities. Through rich narratives, chapter authors situate race-related encounters at the center of their experience in an effort to deconstruct and challenge commonly held assumptions about life in academe. They also provide key recommendations and strategies to help faculty of color ensure their continued professional success. Framed by critical race theory, these stories show how faculty can successfully maneuver through all stages of a career in academe, including tenure and promotion, publication, mentoring, networking, teaching, and dealing with institutional climate issues. This valuable book is for faculty and administrators seeking to create an environment that nurtures professional growth and fosters success among Black faculty.
Download or read book Race in the College Classroom written by Maureen T. Reddy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Awards Winner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Did affirmative action programs solve the problem of race on American college campuses, as several recent books would have us believe? If so, why does talking about race in anything more than a superficial way make so many students uncomfortable? Written by college instructors from many disciplines, this volume of essays takes a bold first step toward a nationwide conversation. Each of the twenty-nine contributors addresses one central question: what are the challenges facing a college professor who believes that teaching responsibly requires an honest and searching examination of race? Professors from the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and education consider topics such as how the classroom environment is structured by race; the temptation to retreat from challenging students when faced with possible reprisals in the form of complaints or negative evaluations; the implications of using standardized evaluations in faculty tenure and promotion when the course subject is intimately connected with race; and the varying ways in which white faculty and faculty of color are impacted by teaching about race.
Download or read book What Keeps Black Students Thriving written by Stephanie L. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Undivided Life written by Judy A. Alston and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the research and writing on faculty of color and persistence in the Academy speaks to mentoring, recruitment, retention, job satisfaction, and the Imposter Syndrome. Yet, in spite of the significance (though we are small in numbers) and necessity of faculty of color in the Academy, there is no literature to describe or explain our experiences with regards to our holistic (body, mind, and spirit) existence and persistence in the Academy. Some questions that persist for faculty of color include: How do I continue to persist in the professoriate either in the tenure-track or as a tenured professor? How can I just be me and still be a successful professor? Do I have to check certain parts of me at the door or can I bring all of who I am into the Academy? How can I teach, research, and serve with my whole self and still have my work valued and accepted? Do I have to do safe research/work or can I do the work that I am passionate about? This collection of chapters are the personal stories from faculty of color who have persisted in the Academy despite the sometimes very steep climb.
Download or read book Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research written by John C. Smart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.
