An Examination of Faculty Advisors as Educators and Emotional Laborers in Community College Baccalaureate Contexts

• In Event: Teaching and Faculty Workload at Community Colleges

Abstract

Converging the theory of institutional logics and the theory of emotional labor, Gonzales and Ayers (2018) posited that emotional labor has come to be expected of community college faculty. In response to Gonzales’s and Ayers’s (2018) call to “refine and test [the] utility” (p. 456) of their theoretical argument, we examined how, if at all, each of the logics they advanced weighed down on faculty advisors in CCB-granting institutions, thereby “positioning them not only as educators but as emotional laborers” (p. 471).

Authors

• Edna Martinez, The University of Texas at El Paso

• Sharon Velarde Pierce, CSUSB