Setting It Off: From Individual Scholars to Collective Sisterhood Among Five Women of Color in the Academy

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

This workshop will engage in dialogue about the importance of considering both disciplinary differences as well as intersectionality when conducting research as women of color in the academy. For the purpose of this session, we will focus primarily on the individual experiences, trajectories, and focus of expertise, while holding each other accountable via peer mentorship. Women’s underrepresentation as tenured and full professors in turn limits their opportunities to advance into formal leadership positions at colleges and universities. It is therefore not surprising that men outnumber women even among newly appointed deans, provosts, and presidents (Hammond, 2015). Further, women of color in educational leadership positions continue to reflect the
lack of intellectual, racial and ethnic diversity in higher education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Leadership for Social Justice

Chair

• Patrice McClellan

Papers

• Setting It Off: From Individual Scholars to Collective Sisterhood Among Five Women of Color in the Academy - Soribel Genao, Queens College; Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen, Lehman College - CUNY; Linda C. Tillman; Terri Nicol Watson, City College of New York - CUNY; Sonya Douglass Horsford, Teachers College, Columbia University