We welcome to the Fall 2017 semester! Dr. Kevicha Echols and Dr. Keisha Thomspon facilitate the group and are responsible for organizing the meetings, planning the agenda, selecting reading materials, and updating the blog page. We scheduled two meetings for this semester: 10/3 and 11/29.

For this academic year we have selected the book Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure by Patricia A. Matthew.

October 3, 2017 

We have selected the chapter Balancing the Passion for Activism with the Demands of Tenure: One Professional’s Story from Three Perspectives. The author reflects on how racism and sexism led her to become an activist on campus and how this affects one’s personal and professional well being and growth. Also discussed are the challenges of how to turn activism and service into scholarship that can count towards tenure.

November 29, 2017 

For this meeting we selected Still Eating in the Kitchen:The Marginalization of African American Faculty in Majority White Academic Governance. Biases guised as objectivity pose disadvantages to minority faculty when efforts to resolve inequalities are the responsibility of faculty from the majority group. This chapter points out the hierarchy in higher education and how minority faculty can find themselves marginalized when it comes to faculty governance.

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