Thesis
Scholar activism in higher education: a narrative study of faculty roles
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2017
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102135
Abstract
In research university settings, faculty work is generally divided into three roles: teaching, research, and service. The divided categories of tenure-line faculty positions are dictated into percentages. Commonly, teaching and research make up 80 percent of the position while service is dedicated to the remaining 20 percent. Faculty have some autonomy in how the percentages of each category are fulfilled, yet promotion and tenure tends to be quantified through the number of publications and courses, taking time and energy away from service activities. The tenure and promotion process tends to overlook scholar activism as a component of the faculty role. The focus of this narrative study is how scholar activist identities are enacted by research university faculty. Tenure-line faculty members in colleges and departments from two Pacific Northwest land grant/research universities discussed their personal relationship with scholar activism and how it is represented in their work as faculty members, educators, and researchers. The findings from the study identify characteristics of enacting the scholar activist identity within the faculty position and a gendered difference in how men and women experience tenure and promotion. A critical theoretical perspective frames the findings, analysis, and recommendations for practice
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- Title
- Scholar activism in higher education
- Creators
- Andrea Larayne Wessel
- Contributors
- Kelly Ward (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, and Educational/Counseling Psychology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525115401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis