Centering Black Women Faculty: Magnifying Powerful Voices

• In Event: 28.045 - Black Women Faculty Perspectives

Abstract

While much of the quantitative research Black women faculty, has taken a comparative approach to understanding their experiences, this study provides a counternarrative, centering their experiences as faculty. This large-scale, multi-institution glance at Black women faculty helps to give us an overview of these women across the country, looking at who they are, where they are, how they spend their time, and what they value in undergraduate education. This study allows us to strengthen various arguments made in qualitative studies of Black women faculty and give voice to a community that can be invisible. This study reaffirms and reinvigorates the need to continue to create avenues for recruitment, hiring, support, promotion, and retention of Black women across all disciplines.

Authors

• Christen Priddie, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Dajanae Palmer, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Samantha Silberstein, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Allison BrckaLorenz, Indiana University