Creating a Faculty Activism Commons for Social Justice
Finding Hope in the Messy Truth
- 248 pages
- English
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Creating a Faculty Activism Commons for Social Justice
Finding Hope in the Messy Truth
About this book
This timely book shines a light on social justice activism within higher education, calling for a conceptual space of faculty activism to share and build on the work of others who came before.
Written by expert social justice academics, this volume provides a collection of honest, critically reflective personal narratives by those who are leading systemic change within their institutions. The faculty authors share openly about their experiences, motivations, challenges, alliances, hopelessness, hopefulness, and what they wish they had known from the start. Topics include addressing systemic racism, changing discriminatory academic policies, establishing resources for historically marginalized students, advocating for a more diverse faculty and staff, educating the campus about bias, among others. This book empowers social justice academics to navigate the complexities of institutional procedures, recognize invisible walls that slow progress, and curate coalitions for systemic change.
Uniquely addressing the joys and challenges of creating systemic change, the book will be essential reading for faculty involved in social justice activism within their universities and colleges. The book will also be relevant for all those in the fields of social justice, community engagement, critical higher education, psychology, and sociology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: An invitation to the faculty activism commons: Strength through truth-telling and vulnerability
- 2 Navigating performative activism and invisibility: I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do
- 3 Shifting and persisting in the face of failure: Learning from what did not work
- 4 “Himpathy,” apathy, and ageism: The formal complaint as a necessary form of activism
- 5 Unpacking toxic social justice cannibalism: The call is coming from inside the house
- 6 More than a name: Centering students in a faculty-student activism collaboration
- 7 Reflections on our departmental journey to collective equity, diversity, and inclusion action
- 8 The squeaky wheel gets the required diversity course and faculty certification
- 9 Building a professional on-campus organization to support women and mothers
- 10 Entrenched or in the trenches: Institutionalized hijacking of faculty engaged in campus activism
- 11 Faculty versus administrator anti-racist activism: How much progress justifies the struggle?
- 12 Aligning financial aid and academic standing policies to support racially and economically minoritized students
- 13 Transforming structures of whiteness: The joys and pains of reimagining university leadership
- 14 Advancing collegewide accessibility: Making lasting change despite high turnover
- Index