Racial battle fatigue, role strain, and African-American faculty at public community colleges

<p>African Americans remain disproportionately underrepresented in the faculty ranks at institutions of higher education in the United States. The faculty role is critical to the quality and exchange of teaching and learning, particularly at public community colleges. The extant literature documents how “chilly” campus climates and racially charged encounters can be harmful to African-American faculty. Moreover, along with the traditional responsibilities and demands of the faculty role, African-American faculty members contend with racism, discrimination, and an anti-Black sentiment in academia as a microcosm of society, likely resulting in race-related role strain. Overall, this exploratory study sought to understand the nature and extent to which full-time male and female African-American faculty at public community colleges experience Racial Battle Fatigue because of racial microaggressions (i.e., the exchange and response to race-related mental, emotional, and physical tensions) and the racialized stressors associated with their faculty role.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Leadership and Counseling

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Stevenson, Tamara N.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Ph.D., Chair
• Yvonne Callaway, Ph.D., Committee Member
• Dibya Choudhuri, Ph.D., Committee Member

• discrimination
• racism
• community colleges
• critical race theory
• faculty
• Higher Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/426

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-1795