2414 - Navigating Resistance to Equity, Excellence and Inclusion of Underrepresented Minority Graduate Students and Faculty

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

How can you engage in a transforming the status quo in graduate admissions and faculty hiring Strategies of resistance reveal high levels of emotional labor to deconstruct “the hidden curriculum” in racialized hierarchies and to perform effectively in environments that are imbued with implicit bias. Come and share strategies for advancing transformative practices in graduate admissions and faculty hiring that advance inclusive excellence or the idea that equity, inclusion and excellence are interdependent.

Description

How can we engage in a transforming the status quo in graduate admissions and faculty hiring? Strategies of resistance reveal high levels of emotional labor to deconstruct “the hidden curriculum” in racialized hierarchies and to perform effectively in environments that are imbued with implicit bias. Come and share strategies for advancing transformative practices in graduate admissions and faculty hiring that advance inclusive excellence or the idea that equity, inclusion and excellence are interdependent.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Ruth E. Zambrana, University of Maryland

Presider

• Ruth E. Zambrana, University of Maryland

Panelists

• Denise A. Segura, University of California-Santa Barbara

• Verna M. Keith, University of Alabama-Birmingham

• Kimberly R. Huyser, University of New Mexico

• David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut

• Nancy López, University of New Mexico