Category: Teaching

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 →

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Exploring Bias in Student Evaluations: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity. (2020).

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Students’ Preconceptions of Professors: Benefits and Barriers according to Ethnicity and Gender (2005)

ABSTRACT. The present study examined the influence of professor and student characteristics on students’ preconceptions of college professors. Course syllabi for a politically charged social science course were constructed with versions varying by teaching style, professor gender, and professor ethnicity. A total of 633 (44% Latino; 34% African American; 22% Anglo) undergraduates rated the course... Continue Reading →

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“Unsettling Relations”: Racism and Sexism Experienced by Faculty of Color in a Predominantly White Canadian University (2005)

ABSTRACT: This article is a qualitative investigation of the experiences of nine women of color in a predominantly White Canadian university. Although the sample size is small, this study underscores racism and sexism pervading in some contexts, situations, and relationships for women of color in academe. Minority instructors perceive racism as infusing most aspects of... Continue Reading →

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“Race Doesn’t Matter, but…”: The Effect of Race on Professors’ Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom (2003)

ABSTRACT. Research has shown how black scholars' experiences differ from those of their white counterparts in regard to research and service, but few studies have addressed the influence of race on professors' teaching experiences. In this paper I examine how and to what degree race shapes professors' perceptions and experiences in the undergraduate college classroom.... Continue Reading →

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