Toxic Ivory Towers : The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty /

Toxic Ivory Towers seeks to document the professional work experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education, and simultaneously address the social and economic inequalities in their life course trajectory. Ruth Enid Zambrana finds that despite the changing demographics...

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Autor principal: Zambrana, Ruth Enid (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Temas:
EDUCATION / General.
Hispanic.
URM.
black.
education.
faculty.
health.
higher education.
stress.
under represented minority.
under-represented minority.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 1. Where Is the Diversity? The Importance of the Domestic Talent Pool in Elite Higher Education Institutions
  • 2. The History and Importance of the Inclusion of Historically Underrepresented Faculty in the Academy
  • 3. The Academy as a Site of Intellectual Determinism
  • 4. Mentoring: Institutions Applying a Solution without Acknowledging the Problem
  • 5. Unwelcoming Climates: The Costs of Balancing Belonging and Inequality
  • 6. Work- Family Balance: The Quandary of URM Professionals
  • 7. The Intersection of Hiring, Appointment, Tenure, and Promotion: Is It Possible to Survive and Thrive?
  • 8. Workplace Stress: Impact on Well- Being and Academic Career Path
  • 9. Does Gender Matter?
  • 10. Creating a Sense of Belonging for URMs in the Academy
  • Appendix A: Self- Administered Web- Based Survey
  • Appendix B: Sample Individual and Group Interview Questions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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