U.S. Higher Ed: A Peculiar Institution

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel discussion will examine research and theory presented in "Whiteness, Power and Resisting Change in US Higher Education," a forthcoming (12/20) edited book published by Palgrave Macmillan, in which submitter is lead editor. The book traces higher education's origins in the colonial era and the associated Whiteness doctrine that has prevailed since. Authors examine research bias, due to Whiteness, the inequity of a two-tiered professoriate, and subsequent implications for diverse faculty and administrative appointments, all of which impact and likely short change students, particularly students of color. The panel will posit what campus leaders must do to ensure the relevancy of higher ed, and to promote its promise of a better economic and intellectual life for participants

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 7: Social Context and Structural Inequalities

Chairs

• Kenneth Robert Roth, University of California - Los Angeles

• Zachary Stephen Ritter, California State University - Dominguez Hills

Papers

• Neoliberalism, Neopopulism, and Democracy in Decline: The University Under Attack on Multiple Fronts - Richard VanHeertum, New York Film Academy

• Confronting Ourselves: An Autoethnographic Approach to Whiteness in Higher Education - Richard L Wagoner, Idaho State University; Hallie Star, College of Southern Idaho

• Changing Pathways of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Any Place for Afrocentric Ideas? - Felix Kumah-Abiwu, Kent State University

Discussants

• Elaine Jessica Tamargo, UCLA

• Richard VanHeertum, New York Film Academy

• Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Linfield College

• Hallie Star, College of Southern Idaho

• Felix Kumah-Abiwu, Kent State University