Resisting, Rejecting, and Redefining Normative Pathways to the Professoriate: Faculty of Color in Higher Education

• In Event: 52.042 - Minoritized in the Academy

Abstract

The Faculty of Color Cohort 2014 consists of 20 scholars in faculty positions across the country. Following Critical Discourse Analysis, we investigate how the FOCC2014 Facebook webpage is used to encourage members to actively resist, reject, and redefine what it means to be a faculty member in higher education. Findings demonstrate empirical evidence of the utility of social media as a space for engagement and community for faculty of color across multiple campuses where the racial/ethnic diversity of faculty is limited.

Authors

• Jennifer Michelle Johnson, Temple University

• Ginny M. Jones, Michigan State University

• Chrystal George Mwangi, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Gina Ann Garcia, University of Pittsburgh

• Amalia Zuleyman Dache-Gerbino, University of Missouri - Columbia