The Black Woman's Guide to Advancing in Academia
The Black Woman's Guide to Advancing in Academia

Author: Jennifer J. Edwards

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-09

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781970079470

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Black Woman's Guide represents a timeless source of strategies to help you advance in academia. Navigating the academy as a professor offers an opportunity to build a prestigious full- or part-time career as you transform the knowledge and attitudes of today's students. The Guide will allow you to: Gain knowledge to help you plan and build your career in the academy. Develop techniques to strengthen your classroom performance and navigate the culture of academia. Learn how the university you choose impacts your faculty experience. Successfully complete a competitive application for a faculty position at the school of your choice. Expand or extend your professional career to include teaching in the academy. Plus, 12 notable Black women professors will share their stories, successes, and hurdles regarding advancing in academia. We share this collection of stories to spark inspiration and remind you that the path of success within the academy is certainly attainable for you. Connect with the Black Women Faculty Connection, our online community, to gain further real-time insight.

A Black Woman's Guide to Earning a Ph.D.
A Black Woman's Guide to Earning a Ph.D.

Author: Nicole A. Telfer

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2020-09-11

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1664130012

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More Black women are needed in the academy. More Black women may want to join the academy, but the academy has not always been accepting of us. Black women who are currently in academia or in doctoral programs face a wide array of social challenges, from racial discrimination to sexism to anti-Black women experiences. Many Black women have hesitated on applying to or starting their doctoral programs to avoid such social challenges. A Black Woman’s Guide to Earning a Ph.D. provides Black women with tips and resources on how to navigate and survive as a doctoral student at a predominantly white university or program. This book focuses primarily on the first two years of graduate school as years 1 and 2 are typically the most challenging. In this book, Black women will read personal stories related to mental health, the impostor syndrome, racial discrimination experiences, and much more. Lastly, this book was written to encourage more Black women to write about their experiences in their doctoral program for others who will come after them. We are all we’ve got.

Handbook of Research on Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Handbook of Research on Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education

Author: Meletiadou, Eleni

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2022-06-24

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1799896307

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Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the forefront of current discussion, as these issues have become an international concern for politicians, government agencies, social activists, and the general public. Higher education institutions internationally face considerable challenges in terms of diversity management of both their students and staff, which limits the success of individuals, institutions, and the sector as a whole. The Handbook of Research on Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education reports on current challenges that higher education institutions face in terms of diversity management and provides crucial research on the application of strategies designed to increase organizational change and support and integrate diverse individuals, including physically disabled individuals, women, and people of color, into higher education institutions. Covering a range of topics such as cultural intelligence and racial diversity, this reference work is ideal for researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, policymakers, educators, and students.

Research Mentorship
Research Mentorship

Author: Refilwe Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya

Publisher: UJ Press

Published: 2023-07-15

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1776444647

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“The lessons drawn on in this book are clear: do not wait to reach some place or position in life where you feel like you are prepared to give back or pour into people; you are already prepared and positioned on some level!” Prof Glenda Gray, President and CEO of the South African Medical Research Council There are barely any research mentorship books despite many conversations on it within academia and the role it can potentially play in the development and retention of academics in the pipeline. Academic institutions, appear not to have any solid mentorship frameworks that can be used to guide academics in the provision of robust research mentorship programmes. This original book details how research mentorship helped the author, a black woman in a predominately male-dominated patriarchal environment and the 33 mentees whose expressions have been captured in the book, to reach the pinnacle of academia despite a severe shortage of African women who have ascended to leadership roles within academia. The book showcases the value of research mentorship in developing leadership and support to the next generation of academics as well as deduce lessons learnt that can help to carry the knowledge enterprise forward. Further, it illustrates how research mentorship aided African women researchers in navigating non-diverse environments, early career struggles, post-graduate studies, work-life challenges as well complexities of scientific productivity, professional visibility, scientific connectivity (networks and collaborations), and resource mobilization, among others. The book offers potential mentors and mentees context-specific guidelines for effective mentorship, and best practices to enable scale-up. It also demonstrates how mentorship can contribute towards inclusivity and diversity and thus aid in narrowing persistent disparities in research, science, and academia.

To Recruit and Advance
To Recruit and Advance

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2006-08-11

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0309095212

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Although more women than men participate in higher education in the United States, the same is not true when it comes to pursuing careers in science and engineering. To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in Science and Engineering identifies and discusses better practices for recruitment, retention, and promotion for women scientists and engineers in academia. Seeking to move beyond yet another catalog of challenges facing the advancement of women in academic science and engineering, this book describes actions actually taken by universities to improve the situation for women. Serving as a guide, it examines the following: Recruitment of female undergraduates and graduate students. Ways of reducing attrition in science and engineering degree programs in the early undergraduate years. Improving retention rates of women at critical transition pointsâ€"from undergraduate to graduate student, from graduate student to postdoc, from postdoc to first faculty position. Recruitment of women for tenure-track positions. Increasing the tenure rate for women faculty. Increasing the number of women in administrative positions. This guide offers numerous solutions that may be of use to other universities and colleges and will be an essential resource for anyone interested in improving the position of women students, faculty, deans, provosts, and presidents in science and engineering.

Black Women Navigating Historically White Higher Education Institutions and the Journey Toward Liberation
Black Women Navigating Historically White Higher Education Institutions and the Journey Toward Liberation

Author: Logan, Stephanie R.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2022-05-27

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1668446278

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Black women in higher education continue to experience colder institutional climates that devalue their presence. They are relied on to mentor students and expected to commit to service activities that are not rewarded in the tenure process and often lack access to knowledgeable mentors to offer career support. There is a need to move beyond the individual resistance strategies employed by Black women to institutional and policy changes in higher education institutions. Specifically, higher education policymakers and administrators should understand and acknowledge how the race and gender makeup of campuses and departments impact the successes and failures of Black women as they work to recruit and retain Black women graduate students, faculty, and administrators. Black Women Navigating Historically White Higher Education Institutions and the Journey Toward Liberation provides a collection of ethnographies, case studies, narratives, counter-stories, and quantitative descriptions of Black women's intersectional experience learning, teaching, serving, and leading in higher education. This publication also provides an opportunity for Black women to identify the systems that impede their professional growth and development in higher education institutions and articulate how they navigate racist and sexist forces to find their versions of success. Covering a range of topics such as leadership, mental health, and identity, this reference work is ideal for higher education professionals, policymakers, administrators, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free
A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free

Author: Tamara Winfrey Harris

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1523006935

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Empowering, feminist guidance for Black women on living unapologetically and authentically-from the bestselling author of The Sisters Are Alright. Unshackle your authentic self from the expectations and stereotypes of American culture through the 6 pillars of living free as a Black woman. Tamara Winfrey Harris harnesses her knowledge as a two-time author and storyteller of the Black femme experience and nationally known expert on the intersections of race and gender to deliver a sharp feminist analysis that is illustrated by real-life stories and examples plucked from popular culture and intimate Black woman-to-Black woman truth-telling. This book is separated into two parts. First, the meaning of liberation is explored and Black women will be guided in creating sustaining practice to mature their well-being along the freedom journey. In part two, readers are introduced to the 6 pillars of living free as a Black woman: Spot the distortions Know your truth Celebrate the real you Understand the cost of liberation Practice freedom SEE free Black women everywhere With the bold, astute writing that you have come to expect from Winfrey-Harris, A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free urges Black women everywhere to choose themselves, and choose freedom, in a world that would have you chained.

Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education
Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education

Author: Conchita Y. Battle

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780761827856

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This work is designed to create a forum for synthesizing collective voices from women of color in academia. It will serve as a professional development tool for academicians, both embarking upon and maintaining careers in higher education. Filled with dynamic women of color sharing one of their most valuable resources, their experience, the authors mentor the reader by discussing practical lessons and mapping career path strategies.

Mentoring Health Science Professionals
Mentoring Health Science Professionals

Author: Sana Loue, JD, PhD, MSSA

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0826104770

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This volume goes beyond examining traditional mentoring agendas by comprehensively addressing contemporary issues relating to mentoring. This unique reference covers ethical and legal matters, issues pertaining to diversity, aligning learning and teaching styles between mentee and mentor, and cross-cultural mentoring. Chapters provide an integration of current mentoring literature across diverse settings, and conclude with detailed case studies of successful mentoring relationships. The book considers the theoretical underpinnings of mentoring and covers the mentoring relationship with faculty, students, and professionals in the early stages of growth. It also contains insight on how to develop and evaluate a mentoring program. Mentoring Health Science Professionals ultimately provides an invaluable blueprint for successful mentoring that considers the process, content, goals, and outcomes of modern-day mentoring in the health sciences. Key features Offers guidance for aligning mentor and mentee teaching and learning styles Discusses evaluation of and stages of growth within the mentoring relationship Examines ethical and legal issues in mentoring, such as diversity, discrimination, sexual harassment, control of the research process, evaluations, and more Highlights case studies of successful mentoring relationships Promotes the development of an organizational culture of mentorship