Conditionally accepted: navigating higher education from the margins

"In 2013, Eric Joy Denise started Conditionally Accepted as a freestanding blog to serve as an "online space for scholars on the margins of academe." As its popularity, utility, and contributors grew, it became an advice column for Inside Higher Ed, which has over 3.5 million readers,...

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Weitere Verfasser: Denise, Eric Joy (HerausgeberIn), Louis, Bertin M. Jr (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Austin University of Texas Press 2024
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"In 2013, Eric Joy Denise started Conditionally Accepted as a freestanding blog to serve as an "online space for scholars on the margins of academe." As its popularity, utility, and contributors grew, it became an advice column for Inside Higher Ed, which has over 3.5 million readers, in 2016. Subsequent editors, including current editor Bertin M. Louis, have helped the platform continue to thrive. Conditionally Accepted has a robust archive, and this edited collection seeks to build on that archive by bringing together BIPOC authors of twelve original full-length essays that allow for more in-depth discussions of some of the most popular and compelling issues alongside eight posts originally published on the Conditionally Accepted blog. Denise and Louis bring together this collaboration as a reflection of the spirit of the blog, and to "to advocate for and mentor scholars of color, amplify the voices of marginalized scholars with various intersecting identities, and critique diversity rhetoric in the absence of radical transformation in academia. These personal narratives speak to institutional betrayals while highlighting our agency, sharing stories of surviving within treacherous terrain and advice for readers to successfully navigate oppressive academic institutions. They provide guidance for marginalized and privileged scholars alike to transform academia." In each chapter, authors share candid and vulnerable reflections on their experiences with injustice, connect their experiences with systemic issues in the academy, and leave readers with some concrete wisdom or advice"--
Beschreibung:viii, 270 Seiten
ISBN:9781477324882
1477324887
9781477328866
1477328866

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