Overcoming adversity in academia : stories from Generation X faculty

Overcoming adversity in academia : stories from Generation X faculty / edited by Elwood Watson.

"This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic."...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : University Press of America, [2014]
Subjects:
College teachers > United States > Attitudes.
Generation X > United States.
EDUCATION > Higher.
College teachers > Attitudes
College teachers
Generation X
Education, Higher
United States
Anecdotes
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Elwood Watson
  • 1. Only Human: My Experience in Higher Education / Martha Diede
  • 2. Confessions of a Bakke Baby: Race, Academia, and the "Joshua Generation" / Terrance Tucker
  • 3. Taking Chances: Gay, Male and Feminist in the Academy / Daniel Farr
  • 4. Tenured To Contingent: Life Choices and the Academic Career / Annemarie Hamlin
  • 5. The Evolution of Tolerance: Growing Up as a White Southerner in the Aftermath of Desegregation / Andria J. Woodell
  • 6. Reflections on Navigating Invisibility and the Consequences of Being Black and Gay in the Academy / Darryl Holloman
  • 7. Reflections Upon One Experience Leading To a Career in Academia / Douglas Mikutel
  • 8. Living Beyond The Dream Deferred: An Auto-Ethnography of My Experiences in the Academy / Antonio C. Cuyler
  • 9. In Search of the Abyss: Negotiating Xtra-Academic Potential / David Prescott-Steed
  • 10. Team Mollick: Our Two-For-One Academic Journey / Kathleen and George Mollick
  • 11. My Ongoing Journey: A Black Generation X Professor's Story In Appalachia / Elwood Watson
  • 12. Leaving the Popular Culture Classroom: Why I'd Rather Keep My Fandom to Myself / Kristi Key
  • 13. Doogie Howser, Ph. D. in Identity Crisis / Zachary Snider
  • 14. Changing the State of Tomorrow Today: One Generation Xer's Journey to End Racism and White Supremacy in the Academy and Beyond / Aimee Glocke
  • 15. Hopefully Drifting / Lance Alexis
  • 16. The Aftermath of Admission / Jenny R. Sadre-Orafai
  • 17. Notes From An In-Betweener / Daryl A. Carter.

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