ABSTRACT: Faculty of color (FOC) engage in important diversity, equity, and inclusion leadership central to a mission of servingness in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs)—a commitment to serving the holistic needs of growing numbers of racially and economically diverse students (Garcia, 2016). Yet, when engaging in leadership structures (e.g., policies, practices), FOC confront racism and sexism. Such systemic barriers... Continue Reading →
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Sacrificing body and mind: Pretenure women faculty of color, their health, and well-being (2023).
ABSTRACT: This study utilized a qualitative secondary data analysis design with an intersectional perspective to ask: How does academia shape or impact the health and well-being of women faculty of color (WFOC) as they navigate the tenure track? Interview data with 33 pretenure WFOC across the United States were examined via typological analysis, revealing two overarching themes that reflect... Continue Reading →
Epistemic Exclusion of Women Faculty and Faculty of Color: Understanding Scholar(ly) Devaluation as a Predictor of Turnover Intentions (2022).
ABSTRACT: Faculty diversity has received increased attention from researchers and institutions of higher education, yet faculty demographics have not changed substantially for many underrepresented groups. Several barriers to the retention of women and faculty of color have been offered, including a lack of belonging, discrimination, social exclusion, and tokenism. Epistemic exclusion, scholarly marginalization rooted in... Continue Reading →
Creating inclusive department climates in STEM fields: Multiple faculty perspectives on the same departments (2022).
ABSTRACT. Climate studies that measure equity and inclusion among faculty reveal widespread gender and race disparities in higher education. The chilly departmental climate that women and faculty of color experience is typically measured through university-wide surveys. Although inclusion plays out at the department level, research rarely focuses on departments. Drawing from 57 interviews with faculty in 14 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)... Continue Reading →
Defining professional support by counselor education faculty of color using critical race theory (2022).
ABSTRACT. Implementing professional support systems that are beneficial to the professional needs of faculty of color (FOC) have been found to promote positive work environments. Using a Critical Race Theory lens, the results of this qualitative study yielded two important themes related to support for counselor educators of color (a) culturally responsive mentoring and (b) purposeful support toward tenure and promotion.... Continue Reading →
Surviving campus carry: A CRT analysis of faculty of color at a Texas public PWI (2021).
ABSTRACT. Throughout history, guns have been used as tools for social control to instill terror within minoritized communities. Campus carry is a current gun law that now allows licensed concealed handgun holders to carry on public college campuses in 11 U.S. states, including Texas (National Conference of State Legislatures [NCSL], 2018). This qualitative study explored... Continue Reading →
Race, gender, and scholarly impact: Disparities for women and faculty of color in clinical psychology (2021).
ABSTRACT. We sought to determine if gender and race are associated with scientific impact, scholarly productivity, career advancement, and prestige. Methods: Publicly available data on publications, h‐index, advancement, and prestige were assessed across core faculty in all American Psychological Association‐accredited clinical psychology programs at R1 institutions in the United States (87 programs, 918 scientists). Results: There were... Continue Reading →
The significance of race in cross-racial mentoring of faculty of color (2021).
ABSTRACT. Mentoring is an important aspect of workplace advancement, particularly for faculty of color (FOC). Due to low representation of FOC at higher ranks in many fields, FOC are often mentored by someone of a different race, typically someone who is white. Faculty mentors who differ from their mentee on race may be less equipped to support FOC in navigating the... Continue Reading →
Professor beware: Liberating faculty voices of color working in predominantly white institutions and geographic settings (2021).
ABSTRACT. Predominantly White institutions (PWIs) have prioritized the recruitment of underrepresented faculty of color. For these faculty, initial excitement about a new position may give way to concerns about workload, support, and the presence of communities of color at the locale. Navigating promotion, campus politics, and negotiating welcoming spaces in the community are challenging for faculty and their loved ones. This study of... Continue Reading →
Epistemic Exclusion: Scholar(ly) Devaluation that Marginalizes Faculty of Color. (2021)
ABSTRACT: Faculty of color experience a number of challenges within academia, including tokenism, marginalization, racial microaggressions, and a disconnect between their racial/ethnic culture and the culture within academia. The present study examined epistemic exclusion as another challenge in which formal institutional systems of evaluation combine with individual biases toward faculty of color to devalue their... Continue Reading →
Sink or Swim: The Mentoring Experiences of Latinx PhD Students with Faculty of Color. (2021)
ABSTRACT: This phenomenological study examines the positive and adverse experiences full-time Latinx PhD students have in mentoring relationships with faculty of Color at a historically white Research-Intensive University in the Southwest, United States. .. Faculty mentoring requires a degree of care and commitment rather than a casual or 'strictly business' approach, especially for racially minoritized... Continue Reading →
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: The Relationship between Age and Race in earning Full Professorships (2020).
ABSTRACT. In this study, we sought to examine a growing phenomenon in academe of young full professorships, but through the lens of young Black full professors in higher education as a field of study. This study explores the experiences of seven young Black faculty who attained the rank of full professor before age 45 and... Continue Reading →
Inequitable Rewards: Experiences of Faculty of Color Mentoring Students of Color. (2020)
ABSTRACT: Employing the analytical lens of Critical Race Theory, I explored how faculty of color view their mentorship of students of color at predominantly White colleges and universities. The research was conducted through an anonymous online questionnaire shared with faculty of color at 136 predominantly White institutions. Three main themes emerge and show that faculty... Continue Reading →
Exploring Bias in Student Evaluations: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity. (2020).
ABSTRACT: Research continues to accumulate showing that in instructor evaluations students are biased against women. This article extends these analyses by examining the dynamics between evaluations and gender and race/ethnicity. In a quasi-experimental design, faculty members teaching identical online courses recorded welcome videos that were presented to students at the course onset, constituting the sole... Continue Reading →
Clearing the path: Queer faculty of color navigating tenure and promotion (2020).
ABSTRACT. This chapter provides an overview of the relevant literature, deepening the comprehension of what it means to navigate the tenure and promotion process as a faculty member who manages the intersections of marginalized identities within a predominantly white and rural academic institution. Rooted in an intersectional, critical race theoretical framework, the chapter emphasizes the significance of... Continue Reading →
The Burden of Service for Faculty of Color to Achieve Diversity and Inclusion: The Minority Tax (2020).
ABSTRACT: The exclusion of Blacks/African-Americans, Latinx/Hispanics, and Indigenous people from science has resulted in their underrepresentation in the biomedical workforce, especially in academia. Faculty diversity at academic institutions is unacceptably low (<6%) and has remained unchanged in the past 20 years. Despite low representation, faculty of color are disproportionately tasked with service to enhance diversity... Continue Reading →
Identity-informed Mentoring to support Acculturation of Female Faculty of Color in Higher Education: An Asian American Female Mentoring Relationship Case Study. (2020)
ABSTRACT: Female faculty of color need mentoring opportunities that recognize, validate, and nurture their perspectives and experiences as assets—rather than liabilities—to their work. Among studies of faculty of color, there have not been specific studies focused on intragroup mentoring for Asian American female faculty. This collaborative autoethnographic study seeks to explore and unpack the complexities... Continue Reading →
Multiracial Faculty Members’ Experiences with Teaching, Research, and Service. (2020)
This study centers 26 Multiracial faculty members’ voices to explore the research question: What are Multiracial tenured and tenure-track faculty members’ experiences with teaching, research, and service within 4-year colleges and universities in the United States? Findings suggest that Multiracial faculty members use their research as a mechanism for social change, but that this research... Continue Reading →
Adverse Racial Climates in Academia: Conceptualization, Interventions, and Call to Action. (2019)
ABSTRACT: Racial conflict at universities across the US has been the focus of academic concern and media attention, yet often administrators and faculty do not understand the problems or know how to approach solutions. Drawing from many branches of psychological science, this paper describes how an oppressive academic climate results in negative outcomes for students... Continue Reading →
Mitigating the ‘powder keg’: The experiences of faculty of color teaching multicultural competence (2019).
ABSTRACT, Teaching multicultural competence is a unique experience. Little is known, however, about the experiences of faculty of color teaching multicultural competence. In this phenomenological study, semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 faculty of color to explore their experiences teaching multicultural competence in counseling graduate programs and in the context of their universities. Five themes emerged including (1) dual threads of multicultural competence,... Continue Reading →
‘Before they Kill My Spirit Entirely’: Insights into the Lived Experiences of American Indian Alaska Native Faculty at Research Universities. (2019)
ABSTRACT: American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) comprise about 2% of the US population and 0.5% of the faculty in higher education. While scholars have documented the experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty, the perspectives of AIAN faculty at elite universities are largely absent. Although AIAN faculty share many of the same barriers to success... Continue Reading →
“How Do You Advance Here? How Do You Survive?” An Exploration of Under-represented Minority Faculty Perceptions of Mentoring Modalities (2018).
ABSTRACT: This article contrasts perceptions among 58 under-represented minority (URM) faculty employed at U.S. research-extensive universities who reported an absence of mentoring or experienced informal or formal mentoring modalities. Key findings reveal a mentoring glass ceiling that affects URM faculty career paths: an absence of mentoring can lead to significant career miscalculations; well-intentioned mentors can... Continue Reading →
#CommunicationSoWhite (2018)
ABSTRACT: Racial inequalities and the colonial legacies of White supremacy permeate scholarly and public discussions today. As part of an ongoing movement to decenter White masculinity as the normative core of scholarly inquiry, this paper is meant as a preliminary intervention. By coding and analyzing the racial composition of primary authors of both articles and... Continue Reading →
Scrutinized but not Recognized: (In)visibility and Hypervisibility Experiences of Faculty of Color (2018)
ABSTRACT: Because of their minority group status and underrepresentation, faculty of color (FOC) are tokens and as such, are highly visible within the academy. Paradoxically, token status may result in their being made to feel simultaneously invisible (e.g., accomplishments are unimportant, lack of belonging) and hypervisible (e.g., heightened scrutiny). Drawing from 118 interviews, we identified... Continue Reading →
Why Diversity Matters in rural America: Women Faculty of Color Challenging Whiteness. (2018)
ABSTRACT: Using critical race theory as an analytical framework to examine White privilege and institutional racism, two teacher educators, in a rural predominantly White university tell counterstories about teaching for social justice in literacy and mathematics education courses. In sharing our counterstories in this paper, we, women faculty of color, challenge Whiteness and institutional racism... Continue Reading →
‘You intimidate Me’ as a Microaggressive Controlling Image to Discipline Womyn of Color faculty. (2018)
ABSTRACT: This essay rectifies limitations in existing microaggression literature by theorizing a particular controlling image as microaggressive. A controlling image operating within the academy is 'you’re intimidating,' which carries representational meanings about Others that seeks to discipline womyn of color faculty. The intersectional nature of the controlling image is mired in power and contextual factors... Continue Reading →
Resisting, Rejecting, and Redefining Normative Pathways to the Professoriate: Faculty of Color in Higher Education. (2018)
ABSTRACT: The Faculty of Color Cohort 2014 (FOCC2014) consists of 20 scholars in faculty positions across the country. Here we use the theory of transformational resistance and data from our private Facebook group webpage as a way to understand the resistance enacted by the FOCC2014 as first-year faculty members. Through critical discourse analysis, we investigate... Continue Reading →
“Someone Who Looks Like Me” Promoting the Success of Students of Color by Promoting the Success of Faculty of Color (2017)
ABSTRACT: Despite focused efforts by many colleges and universities, the racial and ethnic composition of college faculty has not increased significantly in more than twenty years. To provide an educational environment that promotes the success of students of color, it is imperative to develop structures that promote the retention and success of faculty of color.... Continue Reading →
Humanizing the Tenure Years for Faculty of Color: Reflections from STAR Mentors (2017)
ABSTRACT: In this essay, some of the 2015-2017 STAR mentors (mentors of authors in this special issue) illustrate the importance for policymakers, professional organizations, school administrators, and state and system administrators to foster bidirectional relationships with early career scholars of Color. This Insight Column provides the field of language and literacy education, administrators, and state... Continue Reading →
Black Female Faculty, Resilient Grit, and Determined Grace or ‘Just Because Everything is Different Doesn’t Mean Anything has Changed’. (2016)
ABSTRACT: This essay centers the lived experiences of protagonist Dr. Eva Grace as a bisexual Black female Assistant Professor navigating identity politics and power dynamics at a traditionally and predominantly White institution. Theoretically anchored by Black feminist thought coupled with critical race theory’s composite counterstorytelling as method, Dr. Grace’s pre-tenure experiences reflect the mundane nature... Continue Reading →
Campus Climate and Coalition Building for Faculty of Color (2016)
ABSTRACT: It is common practice for colleges and universities to tout the diversity of their faculty, staff, and students in marketing materials and mission statements, but one must look beyond the shiny veneer of websites and brochures to understand the daily challenges faculty of color face in academia. In 2000, people of color comprised only... Continue Reading →
Examining Workplace Ostracism Experiences in Academia: Understanding how Differences in the Faculty Ranks Influence Inclusive Climates on Campus. (2016)
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in the faculty experiences and outcomes of workplace ostracism, and to determine if these experiences are affected significantly by the gender composition of an employee’s specific department. Participants were recruited at two time points to complete campus climate surveys that were distributed to faculty at... Continue Reading →
Moving Racial Discussion Forward: A Counterstory of Racialized Dynamics between an Asian-woman Faculty and White Preservice Teachers in Traditional Rural America. (2014)
ABSTRACT: I describe my experiences teaching elementary literacy methods courses and interacting with White preservice teachers, administrators, and faculty in two remote, traditionally homogeneous U.S. universities. The findings show that many White undergraduate students judged my English language use and racial characteristics, and resisted my professorial expertise. The university administration often placed me in contentious... Continue Reading →
Women Faculty of Color: Stories Behind the Statistics (2014)
ABSTRACT: In this qualitative study we address two primary research questions: What are the experiences of women faculty of color (WFOC) who departed the tenure track at predominantly White, research universities? Using the modified lens of the newcomer adjustment framework, what socialization factors may have contributed to the WFOCs’ departure? Through a longitudinal, in-depth examination... Continue Reading →
The Racial Stress of Membership: Development of the Faculty Inventory of Racialized Experiences in Schools. (2013)
ABSTRACT: This study explored faculty of varying racial backgrounds and their initiation of, interactions with, and stress reactions to racial conflicts within the school settings using an online survey. Several measures were developed according to the Racial/Ethnic Coping Appraisal and Socialization Theory (recast) model and administered to 339 faculty participants. Using factor analytic and correlational... Continue Reading →
Racial Microaggressions: The Narratives of African American Faculty at a Predominantly White University (2012)
ABSTRACT: What role does race play in the lives of fourteen African American (7 women, 7 men) faculty on a predominantly White campus? This case study focuses on their narratives which revealed that racial microaggressions were a common and negative facet of their lives on campus. Specifically, their narratives suggest interactions of microinvalidations with White... Continue Reading →
Promoting Sustained Engagement with Diversity: The Reciprocal Relationships between Informal and Formal College Diversity Experiences (2012)
ABSTRACT: College diversity experiences have been praised not only for their role in promoting student growth but also for contributing to future engagement with diversity. However, the evidence supporting this latter claim is quite limited, often relying on cross-sectional analyses. This study examines whether and how students’ first-year diversity experiences predict their senior-year diversity experiences... Continue Reading →
Effectively Recruiting Faculty of Color at Highly Selective Institutions: A School of Education Case Study. (2011)
ABSTRACT: In this study, we use the case study methodology to examine the faculty recruiting and hiring practices within a school of education at a highly selective private research university. The research question was, what are the practices and policies at the school of education that either promote or detract from recruiting and hiring of... Continue Reading →
Restructuring the Master’s tools: Black Female and Latina Faculty Navigating and Contributing in Classrooms through Oppositional Positions (2011)
ABSTRACT: Employing critical race feminism, this article explores how black and Latina women faculty alter the teaching and learning environment at a predominantly white, research institution (PWI). The limited research on faculty of color at PWIs focuses on barriers to career success, yet places less emphasis on how these faculty negotiate barriers and facilitate structural... Continue Reading →
Racial Dialogues: Challenges Faculty of Color Face in the Classroom. (2011)
ABSTRACT: Research on the experiences of faculty of color in predominantly White institutions (PWIs) suggests that they often experience the campus climate as invalidating, alienating, and hostile. Few studies, however, have actually focused on the classroom experiences of faculty of color when difficult racial dialogues occur. Using Consensually Qualitative Research, eight faculty of color were... Continue Reading →
Race and Gender Oppression in the Classroom: The Experiences of Women Faculty of Color with White Male Students (2010)
ABSTRACT: Research shows that an oppressive classroom environment impairs learning and academic performance for students with oppressed identities. Less research examines faculty perceptions of their classroom, but such research could reveal whether an oppressive environment impairs teaching effectiveness. Although the literature shows that women faculty of color spend a disproportionate amount of time teaching, researchers... Continue Reading →
Transforming the Culture of the Academy through “Preparing Future Faculty” Programs (2010)
ABSTRACT: Preparing Future Faculty programs were developed as an alternate way to prepare doctoral students for academic careers. The author discusses experiences of faculty of color in institutions of higher education. The article describes the original University of Georgia Preparing Future Faculty in Psychology program with its emphasis on students of color. Lessons learned and... Continue Reading →
Smiling Faces and Colored Spaces: The Experiences of Faculty of Color Pursing Tenure in the Academy. (2009)
ABSTRACT: 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... Continue Reading →
How to Survive and Thrive in Academia (2009)
ABSTRACT: This qualitative study investigated the survival and coping strategies employed by 17 faculty of color teaching in counseling programs across the United States. Results indicated that for participants, the meaning of survival extends beyond the ability to meet expectations for tenure and promotion and achieve professional longevity. Survival entails engaging in a variety of... Continue Reading →
Teaching in the Line of fire: Faculty of Color in the Academy (2009)
ABSTRACT: Historically, faculty of color have been woefully underrepresented in higher education. Since the 1980s, though, numbers for these academics have begun to increase. According to a 2005 report from the American Council on Education (ACE), faculty of color have experienced steady growth during the past two decades, more than doubling their numbers to over... Continue Reading →
Faculty of Color in Academe: What 20 years of Literature Tells Us (2008)
To better prepare students for an increasingly diverse society, campuses across the country remain engaged in efforts to diversify the racial and ethnic makeup of their faculties. However, faculty of color remain seriously underrepresented, making up 17% of total full-time faculty. In the past 20 years, more than 300 authors have addressed the status and... Continue Reading →
Racial Microaggressions against Black Counseling and Counseling Psychology Faculty: A Central Challenge in the Multicultural Counseling Movement (2008)
ABSTRACT: This article reports on the results of a qualitative study of Black faculty working in counseling and counseling psychology programs. This investigation involved the use of semistructured interviews to explore the racial microaggressions Black faculty members reportedly experienced in academia. Results of the analysis indicated that 7 primary microaggression themes were perceived by the... Continue Reading →
Examining the Relation Between Race and Student Evaluations of Faculty Members: A Literature Review (2007).
ABSTRACT. The assertion that scholarship is limited on the relation between ethnicity and student evaluations of faculty members is perhaps an understatement. While there is a wealth of scholarship on the relation between gender and student evaluations of faculty members, little has been published on how ethnicity (of both faculty members and students) informs students'... Continue Reading →
Faculty Members’ Social Identities and Classroom Authority (2007).
ABSTRACT. How do faculty members’ social group identities influence their choices about how they present themselves and their course materials? How do these identities affect student responses to them and the material they present? Chesler, M., & Young, A. A. (2007). Faculty members’ social identities and classroom authority. New Directions For Teaching and Learning, 111,... Continue Reading →
Student Experiences with Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges: Another Claim for Distinctiveness (2006)
ABSTRACT: This study explores the relationship between organizational and individual characteristics and diversity-related experiences at liberal arts colleges. Compared with their counterparts at other types of institutions, students at liberal arts colleges report more experiences with diversity. In addition, this study also finds that diversity experiences are positively related with a variety of student outcomes.... Continue Reading →