60.070 - Personal and Professional Changes: Recognition of Our Authentic, Multidimensional Selves in Academia

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Presenters from teacher education, higher education administration, and kinesiology will draw on their diverse perspectives within the academy to share stories and lessons learned from personal and professional changes faced on our quests to and entry into academia. During our panel discussion, panelists will share their experiences to highlight changing and shifting senses of self during our early years in the academy. Highlights from these autoethnographic, reflexive narratives include the influence of stereotype threats and being from diverse cultures as well as critical personal and professional decision points, and journeys of personal change and shifting selves within academia.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Lives of Teachers

Chair

• Angela W. Webb, James Madison University

Papers

• Striving for Harmony in Discord: Recounting My Shifting Selves in Academia - Angela W. Webb, James Madison University

• Professional Flirting: In Search for an Authentic Identity - Comfort Muyang Ateh, Providence College

• A Journey of the Self: "Be" Who You Are - Cathy Smeltzer Erb, Eastern Mennonite University

• Tips for a Successful Journey - Ismael Flores-Marti, William Paterson University

• A Journey of Transformation and Perspective - Lauren P. Madden, The College of New Jersey

• But I Have a Ph.D.!!! My Quest to Become an Authentic Academic - Laquore J. Meadows, The Ohio State University - Columbus