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Book SynopsisTenure at a Crossroads, Again? goes beyond the explication of tenure to explore the contemporary challenges facing academia at the K-12 and higher education levels. This edited volume is unique in the sense that it grapples issues from multiple viewpoints - that of the university/college administrator and professor, to the K-12 educator.
The book examines increased expectations and how existing policies have spilled over into institutions of higher learning once high school graduates enter this domain. Students' educational expectations resonate with college administrators and policy makers forcing institutions to adapt to these needs. This moves professors to dumb down the curricula and teaching to avoid negative evaluations and protect themselves from unwarranted retaliation.
This confluence of factors reverberates throughout the educational system, producing unintended effects that have collectively led to an alliance between the administr
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The invalidating and marginalizing experiences of faculty of color, the political minefields of the K-12 experience, and the many microaggressions experienced by untenured university faculty are each deeply disturbing and multifaceted issues yet this book manages to bring them together and finds the disturbing truths underlying them all. Chapter 7 brought me to my knees because of the graphic reminders of the constant microaggressions, sexism, racism and disdain for family life and responsibilities have been pervasive throughout my academic career. This book will not make you comfortable, but I advise that any aspiring faculty member read it, particularly those who differ from the fully tenured professorial norm by gender, race, religion, class background, beliefs, etc. As someone told me early in my doctoral studies, ‘Most of this is hazing and the less you look like the typical members of the club, the more hazing you get.’ This book illustrates that truth. I would love to share it with administrators, tenure committees and others in positions of power but I sadly doubt they would recognize themselves between it covers.
-- Elizabeth Kelley Rhoades, Southern Connecticut State University
Table of ContentsForeword Jeanette Beatrice Taylor
Introduction G.L.A. Harris and Dwight Vick
PART I: THE ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 1: The Ourstory of Higher Education: We’ve Been Here Before Dwight Vick
Chapter 2: The Corporatization and Devolution of Higher Education G.L.A. Harris
Chapter 3: The Decline in Faculty Governance and Rise in the Administrative State G.L.A. Harris
Chapter 4: Tenure in the New Era: From the Perspective of a Three-Time University President Judith Ramaley
PART II: THE BLACK BOX OF TENURE
Chapter 5: Tenure and the Organizational Culture in Higher Education Phil M. Dodd-Nufrio and Arleen T. Dodd-Nufrio
Chapter 6: Cloaked Biases as Micro-Aggression: Impact on Faculty of Color G.L.A. Harris
Chapter 7: Microaggressions in Academia: Awful but not Unlawful Dwight Vick
Chapter 8: The Immigrant Has Landed Natalia Ermasova
PART III: THE WAR ON EDUCATION
Chapter 9: No Child Left Behind Left No Teacher Standing G.L.A. Harris, Dwight Vick, and Krista Lee
Chapter 10: Challenges in the Classroom: The Perspectives from a K-12 Educator Krista Lee
Conclusion G.L.A. Harris and Dwight Vick
