Taking It to the Streets

The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship

Laura W. Perna, James Minor, Mitchell J. Chang, Donald E. Heller, Simon Marginson, Christine A. Stanley, Ann E. Austin, Gary Rhoades, Estela Mara Bensimon, Cheryl Crazy Bull, Shaun R. Harper, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Daniel G. Solorzano, William G. Tierney, Adrianna Kezar, Adam Gamoran, Jeannie Oakes, Anthony A. Berryman, Laura W. Perna

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781421425474
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

As scholars become more public, what responsibility do they have to advocate for policies that will advance equity, inclusiveness, and social change?

Higher education scholars often conduct research on topics about which they care deeply, but to what extent should they be advocates for reform and social change? One school of thought believes researchers should remain dispassionate and data focused; the other, that a researcher, by the very questions she asks, can help effect social change. In this book, Laura W. Perna questions how, why, and when higher education researchers should be public intellectuals and whether, armed with research, they are—and should be—a powerful force for change.

Taking It to the Streets collects essays from nationally and internationally recognized thought leaders with diverse opinions and perspectives on these issues. With the intentional inclusion of voices on different sides of this discussion, the volume offers a thought-provoking and nuanced understanding of the multifaceted connections between higher education research, advocacy, and policy.

Contributors: Ann E. Austin, Estela Mara Bensimon, Anthony A. Berryman, Mitchell J. Chang, Cheryl Crazy Bull, Adam Gamoran, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Shaun R. Harper, Donald E. Heller, Adrianna Kezar, Simon Marginson, James T. Minor, Jeannie Oakes, Laura W. Perna, Gary Rhoades, Daniel G. Solorzano, Christine A. Stanley, William G. Tierney

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Taking It to the Streets
• Chapter 2. A Day Late and a Dollar Short: The Relevance of Higher Education Research
• Chapter 3. Changing the Course of History: Imagining New Possibilities for Addressing Old Business
• Chapter 4. Using Postsecondary Research to Influence the Policy Process
• Chapter 5. The Activist as Intellectual
• Chapter 6. Researcher as Instrument and Advocate for Inclusive Excellence in Higher Education
• Chapter 7. Commitment to a Scholarly Life of Contribution, Meaning, and Satisfaction: Engaged Scholarship as Research, Translation, and Advocacy
• Chapter 8. Choosing How, Why, and to Whom We Profess: Negotiating Professional Neutrality in Public Scholarship
• Chapter 9. Bridging the Artificial Gap between Activism and Scholarship to Form Tools for Knowledge
• Chapter 10. So That the People May Live: Research and Advocacy—from Indigenous Circles to the Public Domain
• Chapter 11. My People’s Professor: Research for the Humanization and Liberation of Black Americans
• Chapter 12. Listening to Students
• Chapter 13. Why Racial Microaggressions Matter: How I Came to Answer That Question and Why I Do the Work I Do
• Chapter 14. A Road Less Traveled: The Responsibilities of the Intellectual
• Chapter 15. Using Philosophy to Develop a Thoughtful Approach to Going Public or Not
• Chapter 16. Research for Policy in Higher Education: The Case for Research–Practice Partnerships
• Chapter 17. Public Scholarship: Researchers Contributing to Equitable Diverse Democracies
• Contributors
• Index