Resource: Highlighting Your IDEAS in Promotion *The faculty guidebook for making your work more visible in promotion and tenure. Do you set teaching labor boundaries? This issue of invisible pedagogy labor has been on my mind for years, but especially as I spend more time talking with you all one-on-one and in group discussions. What […]
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Life in the academy of unworthiness Did you read your last set of student course evals? Some of you have faced them, and some of you may not read them until you are forced to for writing up the annual review. My guess is that most social justice academics do not look forward to reading
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“I felt stuck in my organization in that I could neither move up a career ladder nor achieve some of my social justice-driven goals. The combination of the curriculum, guidance with Dr. Kim Case, and the supportive nature of my cohort group led to clarity and motivation to take on new work and inspired new
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Reclaiming meaning and purpose Misery is not a requirement Do you feel guilty thinking about any of the following? Does it feel “wrong” for me to say that you should DO LESS? One of the most powerful underlying assumptions of social justice academic culture is that we have to do all the things for all
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You are never alone and…finding your people is an emergency Feeling lonely as a social justice academic Before I even put myself out there, let me remind you all I have worked at 3 universities and served a variety of councils and boards. So my description of experience cannot be pinned to any particular place!!
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My people When you started your career as a faculty member or staff member in your first real job in higher ed, did anyone give you the advice to “find your people?” Yes, I figured they did. Great advice, but how does one find supportive, justice-focused, compassionate, non-competitive, equity-minded folks in the academic landscape? After
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“Kim, we already know this.” You are boring us! Yes, I realize most readers are aware of systemic racism. Why are we diving into these myths of whiteness? I fully acknowledge this may feel pretty basic. So why cover these topics? We need to get back to some basics if we want to expand the
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In other words, “good white people are not racist” As Peggy McIntosh has reminded us in her writing and in her keynotes and workshops, one of the main myths she encounters as a barrier to white ally action is the notion that if I believe I am a good person, then I cannot be racist or contributing
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Try this example You are at family gathering and your 6 year old niece walks in from the backyard. She looks up at you and says, “they called me dumb and ugly.” You realize she refers to her cousins who you see laughing in a huddle by the patio. You look back in your nieces
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Actually, we made it all up. What if I told you that race is a figment of your (our) imagination? What if I told you we, as a collective over time, made it all up? Well, we did. Race is a belief system, not a reality. Race exists in our minds. This is called a
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