All Articles tagged higher education

• Personal Narrative
  December 04, 2024 PDT
  Avoidable Harm: The High Cost of Institutional Intransigence and Betrayal
  Sharon Franks

  Franks’ account of the harmful impacts of institutional stagnancy and intransigence on a group of majority-women academics and the university itself offers recommendations for other change-champions and campus administrators.

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• Research Article
  November 22, 2024 PDT
  Becoming Invisible: Resistance Strategies Among Black women Activists in Higher Education
  Taylor A. GeytonLalaine SevillanoGerri K. ConnaughtFatima Mabrouk

  Black women in academia employ strategic silencing to navigate bias and assert agency. This study highlights the challenges they face and the ways they resist as activists within academic institutions.

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• Critical Reflection
  May 30, 2024 PDT
  Transforming Higher Education: Building Trauma-Informed Communities for Healing and Intergenerational Wellbeing
  Mays ImadByron BitanihirweKate Barranco

  The authors propose a healing-aimed, equity-minded, trauma-informed higher education framework that recognizes the psychological traumas endured by many students, fosters the mental wellbeing of all, and increases academic success.

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• Program Review
  January 18, 2024 PDT
  Overcoming Immunities to Change: The ADVANCE Immunities to Change (ITC) program at Virginia Commonwealth University
  Maike PhilipsenPenelope McFarlineAna MillsJennifer J. ReidDeborah HelsingDenise GrothuesSusan Kornstein

  An Immunity to Change (ITC) facilitators program empowers institutions to become agents of individual and collective change in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education.

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• Personal Narrative
  September 29, 2023 PDT
  Challenging the Brick Wall: A Narrative of Misogynoir, Institutional Courage and Post-Traumatic Healing
  Tiffany D. Baffour

  This scholarly personal narrative describes Baffour’s experiences with misogynoir, academic trauma, and betrayal; and details strategies to resist and redress academic racism and bring about personal healing.

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• Critical Review
  May 16, 2022 PDT
  African American Women Faculty at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs): Empowering through Mentoring
  Melody Russell

  Russell, in this critical review, looks at challenges encountered by African American women at PWIs, highlighting the role of mentoring as resistance and resilience play in supporting them.

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• Introduction
  June 23, 2021 PDT
  Introduction
  Rebecca WarnerSarina SaturnKali FurmanSusan M. Shaw

  In this issue, we include another set of essays that continue conversations about COVID-19 impacts on academic women, paying particular attention to the intersectional dynamics of pandemic impacts.

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• Volume 2, Issue 3
  June 23, 2021 PDT
  Service, Self-care, and Sacrifice: A Qualitative Exploration of the Pandemic University as a Greedy Institution
  Molly DingelMarcia NicholsAngie MejiaKristin Osiecki

  In this autoethnographic essay, Dingel, Nichols, Meja, and Osiecki explore the escalating demands of the greedy institution during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• Research Article
  June 23, 2021 PDT
  “I Have No Time for Anything:” Differences in Faculty Research Productivity during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Megan A. CarpenterDavid A. CotterCatherine Berheide

  Carpenter et al. examine barriers to scholarly productivity during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and offer recommendations with regards to tenure and promotion policies.

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• Personal Narrative
  June 23, 2021 PDT
  Gender, Relationship Status, and COVID-19
  Samantha Bates

  Bates shares a personal reflection about being a single woman in academia during the COVID- 19 pandemic and addresses how institutions can be more inclusive in challenging inequities.

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• Narrative
  December 04, 2020 PDT
  Addressing and Documenting Pandemic Impacts
  Joya MisraEthel L. MickeyDessie L. Clark

  Members of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst ADVANCE-IT team discuss addressing disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that they do not lead to negative outcomes for STEM women.

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