Beyond Repair: Graduate Student Perspectives on Refusing Colonial Higher Education Governance (Poster 39)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Friday 1:30 p.m.
  In Poster Session: Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Higher Education

Abstract

Using CRT’s counterstories, Critical whiteness Methodology, and Indigenous feminist (re)generative refusals as our framing, we explore graduate student experiences with higher education governance at multiple levels. We situate the University of Utah (the U) as a political testing ground state for repressive legislation and policy to contextualize our experience as graduate students within this system, and reflect on the question: How has our experience, respective of our positionalities within the university, differed from typical university governance? We then utilize counterstories and talanoa as our methods to provide examples of (re)generative refusals to discuss potential ways to move beyond repairing the university to reimagining it.

Authors

• Kehaulani Folau, University of Utah

• S Shiver, University of Utah

• Rosie Ojeda, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

• Maeve Wall, California State University - Northridge