Teacher Education, the Tenure Track, and Racial Justice: Insights From Three Black Males in Historically and Predominantly White Institutions

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Black males represent only 3% of the faculty in US universities (NCES, 2022). Given the extent of harmful racialized schooling experiences (Griffin et al., 2012; McCoy-Wilson, 2020), this percentage is not surprising at the faculty level. Black males who make it to the academy experience inadequate to no socialization, fem/mentorship, and resources to be successful on tenure track when compared to their privileged counterparts (Ford et al., 2017; NCES, 2022). This symposium presents insights from three Black male professors on tenure track at three southern historically and predominantly white institutions. Using practitioner research approaches (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009; Ellis & Bochner, 2000), their inquiries underscore the imperative of collective imaginings and actions to build the futures we dream of today.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 08: Teachers’ Lives, Identities, and Journeys

Chair

• John A. Williams, Texas A&M University

Papers

• Ubuntu: Community Among Black Faculty Members - Jarvais Jackson, Georgia Southern University

• Teaching While Black: Inequity Within the Process - Kevin L. Jones, Stephen F. Austin State University

• “One Hand Can’t Clap”: Institutional and Communal Imperatives for Racial Justice on the Tenure Track - Shawn S. Savage, University of North Carolina - Wilmington

Discussant

• Ramon Goings, University of Maryland - Baltimore County