Exploring the Unspoken Racialized Processes for Minoritized Tenure-Seeking Faculty

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The objective of this symposium is to provide an opportunity for panelists and attendees to discuss the various ways racially minoritized faculty of color enter, navigate, and advance in the professoriate. With a backdrop that institutions of higher education tout commitments to recruitment and retention, panelists share empirical and theoretical scholarship about persisting challenges and barriers to success. Specifically, panelists will present studies about: (1) equity minded faculty recruitment and retention efforts; (2) perceptions of collegiality; (3) authenticity within the tenure and promotion process; and (4) a critical race analysis of tenure denial lawsuits. After the presentations, audience members will be invited to share thoughts and ideas that support equitable processes for hiring and retaining racially minoritized faculty of color.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 4: Faculty, Curriculum, and Teaching

Chair

• Alicia C. Dowd, The Pennsylvania State University

Papers

• Breaking the Status Quo Wheel: The Bro Code and the White Web in Faculty Hiring Search Committees - Román Liera, Montclair State University

• Exploring Tenure and Promotion Strategies of Racially Minoritized Faculty - Karly Ford, The Pennsylvania State University

• Assessing Perceptions of Fairness and Collegiality Among Tenure-Seeking Faculty of Color at Research Institutions - Royel M. Johnson, University of Southern California; Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, Virginia Union University

• Exploring Tenure Denial Lawsuits of Black Women in the Academy - Lawanda Ward, The Pennsylvania State University