This edited volume explores and deconstructs the possibilities of higher education beyond its initial purpose. The book contextualizes and argues for a more robust interrogation of persistent patterns of campus inequality driven by rapid demographic change, reduced public spending in higher education, and an increasingly polarized political landscape. It offers contemporary views and critiques ideas and practices such as micro-aggressions, implicit and explicit bias, and their consequences in reifying racial and gender-based inequalities on members of nondominant groups. The book also highlights coping mechanisms and resistance strategies that have enabled members of nondominant groups to contest primarily racial- and gender- based inequity. In doing so, it identifies new ways higher education can do what it professes to do better, in all ways, from providing real benefit to students and communities, while also setting a bar for society to more effectively realize its stated purpose and creed.
Author(s): Kenneth R. Roth, Felix Kumah-Abiwu, Zachary S. Ritter
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Transforming Higher Education—Reflections on the Past and Possibilities for the Future
Purposes of Higher Education in Steady Tension
Progress, Constraints, and Potential for Transformation
Reimagining Higher Education for the Next Generation
References
Chapter 2: The American University and the Struggle for Democracy
Introduction
Democracy in America
Democracy and Higher Education
What Can Be Done?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Space, Place, and Power in the Neoliberal Academy: Reflections on Asian American Women and Leadership in The Chair
Introduction
Invisibility/Visibility and the Labor of Asian American Women’s Leadership
Refusing and Re-placing Spaces of Trauma
Solidarities Through Networks of Belonging
Conclusion: What Can Be?
References
Chapter 4: Equity and Efficacy in Teaching Effectiveness Assessment (TEA)
Introduction
Why Change TEA? Why Now?
The Changing Context of Higher Education
Actionable Data, Bias, and Statistical Meaninglessness
A Modest Proposal: TEA for Transformation Versus TEA for Status Quo
Self and Peer Observation
Self-Reflection
Peer Observation
Course Organization
Context and Purpose
Student and Community Engagement
Teacher Presence
Student Learning Assessment
Student Perspectives
Sample Student Perspective Survey
Course Design
Inclusion and Belonging
Teacher Presence
Engagement
Assessment
Modality and Context
Global
Extraordinary Commendations and Concerns
Hard Choices and Obstacles
References
Chapter 5: What Students, Whose Success? Reimagining the Transformation of Higher Education Through Critically Engaged Student Success Initiatives
Introduction
Positionality of the Authors
The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA)
Multi-dimensional Perspectives from Stakeholders
Institutional Gaps in Support and Transformative Possibilities
At the Core: Financial Aid
One-Stop Shop: Meeting Students’ Basic Needs
Basic Needs Support in the Fabric of the University
Reimagining the Transformative Possibility of Higher Education
References
Chapter 6: Transformative Mentoring Relationships: Engaging Student Voices to Create Emancipatory Change in Curriculum
Introduction
Literature Review
Defining Mentoring
Importance of Graduate Faculty Mentors
Challenges in Finding and Maintaining Supportive Graduate Mentorship
Latina/o/x Graduate Students
Theoretical Framework
Methodology
Findings
Prioritizing Health and Wellness
Advocating for Students Remotely
Discussion
References
Chapter 7: A Center for Sight and Sound: Connecting Media Representations to Critical Production Training
Introduction
Background
Our Sample
We See What We’re Shown
Why We Need a Center for Sight and Sound
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: The Quiet Revolution: Humanizing Institutions of Higher Education in the Wake of Existential Trauma
Introduction
In the Wake of Existential Trauma
In Praise of Humans
Multicultural Humanistic Psychology
Culturally Relative Self-Actualization
Multicultural Constellations
Conclusion
The Light in the Tower, Rebuilding a Multicultural Humanistic Institution
References
Chapter 9: The Latina Madre and Her Journey to Baccalaureate Degree Attainment
Introduction
The Study
Place
Findings
Familia
Culture and Gender
Barriers and Challenges
Resolve
Research Limitations
Implications for Practice
Personal Reflection
Soy Una Latina Madre
Xicanisma
Findings
Source of Inspiration
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Why Race Matters in Financial Literacy Education
Introduction
The Cost of ‘Undergrad’: A Crisis
Financial Education: Where Did It Go?
College Students Lack Financial Literacy
Critically Examining Financial Literacy
Methods
Findings
Countering White Normativity
What Can Be
Budgeting, Saving, and Preparing for the Future Is Student Success
Buying Black and Addressing Inequalities
Implications
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Philanthropic Funding and the Future of HBCUs
Introduction
Funding Trends of HBCUs
Philanthropic Funding and HBCUs
Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: Forging Community: Reflections on a Colloquium for Critical Scholars of College Sport
Introduction
Colloquium Origin and Design
Context
Colloquium Format
Profile of Colloquium Participants
Proposed Assignments for the Participants and Colloquium Outcomes
Insights from the Colloquium
Colloquium Outcomes
References
Index
