Nicholas D. Hartlep is the Robert Charles Billings Chair in Education at Berea College where he Chairs the Department of Education Studies. Dr. Hartlep's most recent book is Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and Lessons from Higher Education (2020, Routledge). His book The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education, with Lucille L. T. Eckrich and Brandon O. Hensley (2017, Routledge) was named an Outstanding Book by the Society of Professors of Education and nominated for a Grawemeyer in Education Award. In 2020 Diverse: Issues in Higher Education named Dr. Hartlep an Emerging Scholar. In 2018, the Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) granted Dr. Hartlep the John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagement Award. In 2017, Metropolitan State University presented him with both the 2017 Community Engaged Scholarship Award and the President’s Circle of Engagement Award. In 2016, the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee presented him with a Graduate of the Last Decade Award for his prolific writing. In 2015, he received the University Research Initiative Award from Illinois State University and a Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Winona State University. He is currently writing What Can Be Learned from Work Colleges? An Education That Works (SUNY Press). Follow his work on Twitter at @nhartlep or at his website, www.nicholashartlep.com Supervisors: Thandeka K. Chapman
About the series: Critical storytellers provoke readers to acknowledge and question different per... more About the series: Critical storytellers provoke readers to acknowledge and question different perspectives. Critical storytelling questions unquestioned norms and assumptions. It exposes oppression in its various forms, such as violence, sexism, racism, bullying, exploitation, marginalization, dehumanization, and cultural imperialism. These passionate narrators have the guts to think, act, and question, vulnerably. Storytelling, when it's critical, is inclusive. It doubts common sense. It questions the status quo. It tears down regimes of domination. It envisions possibilities for change. Critical storytellers rely on various media and methods. Their stories are critical of metanarratives that are exclusionary and divisive. Critical storytellers voice silences and offer new narratives in their creative work. The Critical Storytelling book series will include diverse storytelling methods, theoretical approaches, and narrative frameworks. We invite collaborative books, edited, and authored, as well as individually written projects.
Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in coll... more Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of color—including African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populations—in higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories. Chapters illustrate on-the-ground experiences, elucidating the struggles and triumphs of faculty of color as they navigate the historically White setting of higher education, and provide actionable strategies to help faculty and administrators combat these issues.
Asian/American Scholars of Education: 21st Century Pedagogies, Perspectives, and Experiences shar... more Asian/American Scholars of Education: 21st Century Pedagogies, Perspectives, and Experiences shares the knowledge and travails of Asian/American luminaries in the field of Education. This unique collection of essays acknowledges the struggle that Asian/American faculty have faced when it comes to being regarded as legitimate scholars deserving of endowed or distinguished status. The chapter contributors in this volume include former doctoral students, children, protégés, and colleagues of the Asian/American endowed and distinguished professors featured in the book: A. Lin Goodwin, Suzanne SooHoo, Kioh Kim, Krishna Bista, George Sugai, Yali Zou, Yong Zhao, Robert Teranishi, Asha K. Jitendra, Shouping Hu, and Ming Ming Chiu. Asian/American Scholars of Education makes an important impact by asking: Why are there so few endowed and distinguished faculty members in Education?
Toptier college sports are extremely profitable. Despite the billions of dollars involved in the... more Toptier college sports are extremely profitable. Despite the billions of dollars involved in the amateur sports industrial complex, none winds up in the hands of the athletes. The controversies surrounding whether colleges and universities should pay athletes to compete on these educational institutions' behalf is longstanding and coincides with the rise of the black athlete at predominately white colleges and universities. Pay to Play: Race and the Perils of the College Sports Industrial Complex takes a hard look at historical and contemporary efforts to control sports participation and compensation for black athletes in amateur sports in general, and in big time college sports programs, in particular. The book begins with background on the history of amateur athletics in America, including the forced separation of black and white athletes. Subsequent sections examine subjects such as the integration of college sports and the use of black athletes to sell everything from fast food to shoes, and argues that college athletes must receive adequate compensation for their labor. The book concludes by discussing recent efforts by college athletes to unionize and control their likenesses, presenting a provocative remedy for transforming bigtime college sports as we know it. FEATURES Examines the longstanding controversy regarding whether colleges must "pay to play" when it comes to being competitive in highprofile sports and how this debate intersects with perceptions of race Suggests a remedy for transforming bigtime college sports that can simultaneously benefit colleges and universities, nonrevenue generating sports, elite college athletes, and professional sports teams Presents provocative and insightful information for scholars and students in the fields of sociology, kinesiology, education, gender studies, black history, sports management, urban studies, communications, and labor relations as well as for current athletes, former athletes, and fans of college sports
What happens to people when they choose to unhook from the rules and modes of thought whiteness r... more What happens to people when they choose to unhook from the rules and modes of thought whiteness requires and expects of them? Whiteness promotes a form of hegemonic thinking, which influences not only thought processes but also behavior within the academy. Working to dismantle the racism and whiteness that continue to keep oppressed people powerless and immobilized in academe requires sharing power, opportunity, and access. Removing barriers to the knowledge created in higher education is an essential part of this process. The process of unhooking oneself from institutionalized whiteness certainly requires fighting hegemonic modes of thought and patriarchal views that persistently keep marginalized groups of academics in their station (or at their institution). In the explosive Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps, editors Hartlep and Hayes continue the conversation they began in 2013; they and the chapter contributors are brave enough to tell a contemporary reality few are brave enough to discuss.
The United States is not post-racial, despite claims otherwise. The days of lynching have been re... more The United States is not post-racial, despite claims otherwise. The days of lynching have been replaced with a pernicious modern racism and race-based violence equally strong and more difficult to untangle. This violence too often results in the killing of Black Americans, particularly males. While society may believe we have transcended race, contemporary history tells another story with the recent killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others. While their deaths are tragic, the greater tragedy is that incidents making the news are only a fraction of the assault on communities of color in. This volume takes seriously the need for concentrated and powerful dialogue to emerge in the wake of these murders that illuminates the assault in a powerful and provocative way. Through a series of essays, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short “conversations” in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality, and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color. The essays in this volume, all under 2000 words, cut to the heart of the matter using current assaults as points of departure and is relevant to education, sociology, law, social work, and criminology.
What makes a community? Can we segregate by skin color, or walled off entire cities as in Gaza, and still build responsive and generative social units? We cannot hope to create in the USA the kind of reflective and active society where people learn from each other through dialogue across difference if the dominant white culture refuses a social compact among all members that reflects diversity and solidarity. Sometimes angry, always passionate and principled, the short chapters in Assaults on Communities of Color are like bursts of fire that both illuminate ideas and ignite commitments to critical and inclusive democratic praxis. (AG Rud, distinguished professor, Washington State University)
The Assault on Communities of Color breaks through all the lies, misconceptions, and distortions that fuel the idea that we now live in a post racial state. Not only does the book explore how race and violence intersect in a myriad of institutional, symbolic, and everyday relations, the authors use this point of analysis to begin a dialogue that is critical, informative, and speaks to the need to develop democratic public spheres and a formative culture in which such a dialogue can take place and move from words, shared values, and ethical responsibility to collective action. The Assault on Communities of Color offers up a signpost and much needed vision that at this particular historical provides a vibrant language, fresh politics, and inspired sense of civic courage. (Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest)
There is a long history of racial, social, and political unrest and injustice in this nation – a historical trauma. Notions about violence have always developed alongside socioeconomic and race-based realities. Views of the nature of violence are rooted in racist and classist worldviews that often place the deficiencies of certain groups’ inability to disrupt racism, cycles of poverty, and educational inequities and the architects of their own urban casualties (Riessman, 1962; Moynihan, 1965. Issues in Ferguson, Missouri and other communities are the newest failure of the larger society to substantially address the systemic issues of racial injustice and violation of human rights in communities of color in the United States. This volume provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs. (Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, PhD, associate professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia)
We live in a time when racial tension is bubbling up and seeping through the cracks in the sidewalk. It is imperative that we as educators take to the streets and classrooms to change the hearts and minds of young people to provide opportunities to and solidify the dignity of all. In The Assault on Communities of Color, Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and their colleagues make it crystal clear that we cannot wait any longer to stand up, and rise up, against injustice. (Marybeth Gasman, professor, University of Pennsylvania)
Searing, gritty, and jarring—this collection of essays brings together theoretical complexity with personal reflections to propel forward the public dialogue on race and violence in the United States today. Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and colleagues implore us to grapple with the intricacies and the excesses of the profoundly normalized nature of the Assault on Communities of Color, even while taking hope in collectivizings that permeate the moment that we are in as being nothing short of building movement for anti-oppressive change. Read this book and join the movement. (Kevin Kumashiro, dean,University of San Francisco School of Education, author of "Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture")
This volume provides a concentrated and powerful dialogue in the wake of recent murders of young Black males and assaults on communities of color. Through a series of conversation starters, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short essays in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color.
About the series: Critical storytellers provoke readers to acknowledge and question different per... more About the series: Critical storytellers provoke readers to acknowledge and question different perspectives. Critical storytelling questions unquestioned norms and assumptions. It exposes oppression in its various forms, such as violence, sexism, racism, bullying, exploitation, marginalization, dehumanization, and cultural imperialism. These passionate narrators have the guts to think, act, and question, vulnerably. Storytelling, when it's critical, is inclusive. It doubts common sense. It questions the status quo. It tears down regimes of domination. It envisions possibilities for change. Critical storytellers rely on various media and methods. Their stories are critical of metanarratives that are exclusionary and divisive. Critical storytellers voice silences and offer new narratives in their creative work. The Critical Storytelling book series will include diverse storytelling methods, theoretical approaches, and narrative frameworks. We invite collaborative books, edited, and authored, as well as individually written projects.
Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in coll... more Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of color—including African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populations—in higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories. Chapters illustrate on-the-ground experiences, elucidating the struggles and triumphs of faculty of color as they navigate the historically White setting of higher education, and provide actionable strategies to help faculty and administrators combat these issues.
Asian/American Scholars of Education: 21st Century Pedagogies, Perspectives, and Experiences shar... more Asian/American Scholars of Education: 21st Century Pedagogies, Perspectives, and Experiences shares the knowledge and travails of Asian/American luminaries in the field of Education. This unique collection of essays acknowledges the struggle that Asian/American faculty have faced when it comes to being regarded as legitimate scholars deserving of endowed or distinguished status. The chapter contributors in this volume include former doctoral students, children, protégés, and colleagues of the Asian/American endowed and distinguished professors featured in the book: A. Lin Goodwin, Suzanne SooHoo, Kioh Kim, Krishna Bista, George Sugai, Yali Zou, Yong Zhao, Robert Teranishi, Asha K. Jitendra, Shouping Hu, and Ming Ming Chiu. Asian/American Scholars of Education makes an important impact by asking: Why are there so few endowed and distinguished faculty members in Education?
Toptier college sports are extremely profitable. Despite the billions of dollars involved in the... more Toptier college sports are extremely profitable. Despite the billions of dollars involved in the amateur sports industrial complex, none winds up in the hands of the athletes. The controversies surrounding whether colleges and universities should pay athletes to compete on these educational institutions' behalf is longstanding and coincides with the rise of the black athlete at predominately white colleges and universities. Pay to Play: Race and the Perils of the College Sports Industrial Complex takes a hard look at historical and contemporary efforts to control sports participation and compensation for black athletes in amateur sports in general, and in big time college sports programs, in particular. The book begins with background on the history of amateur athletics in America, including the forced separation of black and white athletes. Subsequent sections examine subjects such as the integration of college sports and the use of black athletes to sell everything from fast food to shoes, and argues that college athletes must receive adequate compensation for their labor. The book concludes by discussing recent efforts by college athletes to unionize and control their likenesses, presenting a provocative remedy for transforming bigtime college sports as we know it. FEATURES Examines the longstanding controversy regarding whether colleges must "pay to play" when it comes to being competitive in highprofile sports and how this debate intersects with perceptions of race Suggests a remedy for transforming bigtime college sports that can simultaneously benefit colleges and universities, nonrevenue generating sports, elite college athletes, and professional sports teams Presents provocative and insightful information for scholars and students in the fields of sociology, kinesiology, education, gender studies, black history, sports management, urban studies, communications, and labor relations as well as for current athletes, former athletes, and fans of college sports
What happens to people when they choose to unhook from the rules and modes of thought whiteness r... more What happens to people when they choose to unhook from the rules and modes of thought whiteness requires and expects of them? Whiteness promotes a form of hegemonic thinking, which influences not only thought processes but also behavior within the academy. Working to dismantle the racism and whiteness that continue to keep oppressed people powerless and immobilized in academe requires sharing power, opportunity, and access. Removing barriers to the knowledge created in higher education is an essential part of this process. The process of unhooking oneself from institutionalized whiteness certainly requires fighting hegemonic modes of thought and patriarchal views that persistently keep marginalized groups of academics in their station (or at their institution). In the explosive Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps, editors Hartlep and Hayes continue the conversation they began in 2013; they and the chapter contributors are brave enough to tell a contemporary reality few are brave enough to discuss.
The United States is not post-racial, despite claims otherwise. The days of lynching have been re... more The United States is not post-racial, despite claims otherwise. The days of lynching have been replaced with a pernicious modern racism and race-based violence equally strong and more difficult to untangle. This violence too often results in the killing of Black Americans, particularly males. While society may believe we have transcended race, contemporary history tells another story with the recent killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others. While their deaths are tragic, the greater tragedy is that incidents making the news are only a fraction of the assault on communities of color in. This volume takes seriously the need for concentrated and powerful dialogue to emerge in the wake of these murders that illuminates the assault in a powerful and provocative way. Through a series of essays, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short “conversations” in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality, and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color. The essays in this volume, all under 2000 words, cut to the heart of the matter using current assaults as points of departure and is relevant to education, sociology, law, social work, and criminology.
What makes a community? Can we segregate by skin color, or walled off entire cities as in Gaza, and still build responsive and generative social units? We cannot hope to create in the USA the kind of reflective and active society where people learn from each other through dialogue across difference if the dominant white culture refuses a social compact among all members that reflects diversity and solidarity. Sometimes angry, always passionate and principled, the short chapters in Assaults on Communities of Color are like bursts of fire that both illuminate ideas and ignite commitments to critical and inclusive democratic praxis. (AG Rud, distinguished professor, Washington State University)
The Assault on Communities of Color breaks through all the lies, misconceptions, and distortions that fuel the idea that we now live in a post racial state. Not only does the book explore how race and violence intersect in a myriad of institutional, symbolic, and everyday relations, the authors use this point of analysis to begin a dialogue that is critical, informative, and speaks to the need to develop democratic public spheres and a formative culture in which such a dialogue can take place and move from words, shared values, and ethical responsibility to collective action. The Assault on Communities of Color offers up a signpost and much needed vision that at this particular historical provides a vibrant language, fresh politics, and inspired sense of civic courage. (Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest)
There is a long history of racial, social, and political unrest and injustice in this nation – a historical trauma. Notions about violence have always developed alongside socioeconomic and race-based realities. Views of the nature of violence are rooted in racist and classist worldviews that often place the deficiencies of certain groups’ inability to disrupt racism, cycles of poverty, and educational inequities and the architects of their own urban casualties (Riessman, 1962; Moynihan, 1965. Issues in Ferguson, Missouri and other communities are the newest failure of the larger society to substantially address the systemic issues of racial injustice and violation of human rights in communities of color in the United States. This volume provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs. (Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, PhD, associate professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia)
We live in a time when racial tension is bubbling up and seeping through the cracks in the sidewalk. It is imperative that we as educators take to the streets and classrooms to change the hearts and minds of young people to provide opportunities to and solidify the dignity of all. In The Assault on Communities of Color, Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and their colleagues make it crystal clear that we cannot wait any longer to stand up, and rise up, against injustice. (Marybeth Gasman, professor, University of Pennsylvania)
Searing, gritty, and jarring—this collection of essays brings together theoretical complexity with personal reflections to propel forward the public dialogue on race and violence in the United States today. Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and colleagues implore us to grapple with the intricacies and the excesses of the profoundly normalized nature of the Assault on Communities of Color, even while taking hope in collectivizings that permeate the moment that we are in as being nothing short of building movement for anti-oppressive change. Read this book and join the movement. (Kevin Kumashiro, dean,University of San Francisco School of Education, author of "Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture")
This volume provides a concentrated and powerful dialogue in the wake of recent murders of young Black males and assaults on communities of color. Through a series of conversation starters, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short essays in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color.
The experience of adopted college/university students and young adults, and their unique challeng... more The experience of adopted college/university students and young adults, and their unique challenges in understanding the development of their personal identities, is an important topic for research and clinical practice with adopted people. This paper examines college and university students' understanding of how their life experiences of being born Asian but being raised in a non-Asian adoptive family have influenced their personal racial identity formation and how this may have affected their choices of study and career. In addition to subjects' responses to a questionnaire, participants completed five peer-reviewed scales that revealed information about how they perceive their racial identities and their efforts to distinguish genetics from environmental influences on their personal identities. This article reports on the key findings that have significance for psychotherapists treating these students.
Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity, and Leadership, 2021
The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans, especially South Asian Americans, is central to... more The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans, especially South Asian Americans, is central to society’s characterization of them as precocial spellers. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a prestigious event where the best spellers from across the United States face off in a high-stakes and highly-televised spelling competition. In this article, the researchers analyze the demographic and geographic characteristics of the winners of this competition. Included in the analyses are responses to questions such as: Are Scripps National Spelling Bee winners more likely to be males or females? Asians or non-Asians? And, what is the average age of winners? Results show that the demographic backgrounds of Scripps National Spelling Bee winners have changed over time, most acutely during the 1980s. Although Asian Americans have been winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee in record numbers in recent years, we problematize both the characterization that they are overrepresented as winner...
On September 27, 2012, John R. Silber died--he was 86 years old. From 1971 to 1996 Silber led Bos... more On September 27, 2012, John R. Silber died--he was 86 years old. From 1971 to 1996 Silber led Boston University (BU) as its President, and from 1996 to 2002, as BU's Chancellor. From 2002 to 2003 he again served as President (Ad Interim), and from 2003, until his death in 2012, he held the title of President Emeritus. Dr. Silber was known by Educational Foundations faculty to oppose their field of study. For example, Silber wished "to eliminate social justice from pre-service teacher education" (Neumann, 2009, p. 84), and his extremism against democratic education became most evident when it was discovered that he kept a private "blacklist" of professors whom he despised. (1) Silber's infamous animosity toward Foundations of Education was confirmed to the public when Educational Foundations at BU was closed (see Shea & Henry, 1986; Shea, Sola, & Jones, 1987). What happened at BU during the 1980s continues to be a trend at U.S. colleges and universities. F...
In our chapter we write the wrong by responding to today’s criminal justice system (Bedi, 2003; O... more In our chapter we write the wrong by responding to today’s criminal justice system (Bedi, 2003; Omi & Winant, 1994). We identify and address the racial wrongs that the Trayvon Martin case reveals and connect that analysis of the case with the Simon v. State case.
In 2020, Kappa Delta Pi’s Diversity Summit convened professional conversation groups to explore r... more In 2020, Kappa Delta Pi’s Diversity Summit convened professional conversation groups to explore recruitment and retention factors influencing prospective teachers of color. Information from groups was interpreted qualitatively; analysis and findings suggested the following emergent themes: (1) Importance of different perspectives and voices, (2) Recognition of systemic racism as experienced by prospective teachers of color, and (3) Strategies used within teacher education programs to address barriers and cultivate successful solutions for prospective teachers of color.
The Kappa Delta Pi 2020 Diversity Summit addressed current issues in the teaching profession. Thi... more The Kappa Delta Pi 2020 Diversity Summit addressed current issues in the teaching profession. This article targets the constructs from the breakout sessions focusing on White privilege as it relates to teacher education and teachers of color.
Abstract Kappa Delta Pi’s Diversity Summit in 2020 offered educators the opportunity to discuss t... more Abstract Kappa Delta Pi’s Diversity Summit in 2020 offered educators the opportunity to discuss the question “What policies need to change to prevent the exodus of prospective teachers of color and teachers of color?” Based on the proceedings, this article addresses policy, advocacy, and allyship for people of color from the prospective teacher phase into the transition to the teaching profession.
INTRODUCTION Changing racial demographics are significantly affecting the racial landscape of sub... more INTRODUCTION Changing racial demographics are significantly affecting the racial landscape of suburban schools (Fry, 2009). These changes represent three primary shifts: (1) White families continue to move further from metropolitan areas (Orfield, 2002), (2) Affluent families of color migrate to districts neighboring urban areas (Orfield, 2002), and (3) Families of color in urban areas continue to utilize existing interdistrict busing programs (Wells et al., 2009). Thus, suburban districts find themselves dealing with larger numbers of savvy, middle class, homeowners of color as well as low-income and middle-class parents from urban districts. Parents of color choose these schools because of the rigorous extensive curriculum, which challenges their student academically, provides leadership and additional learning opportunities, and facilitates the creation of competitive resumes for college entrance. Research has documented the multiple positive academic and social outcomes for stud...
Toptier college sports are extremely profitable. Despite the billions of dollars involved in the... more Toptier college sports are extremely profitable. Despite the billions of dollars involved in the amateur sports industrial complex, none winds up in the hands of the athletes. The controversies surrounding whether colleges and universities should pay athletes to compete on these educational institutions' behalf is longstanding and coincides with the rise of the black athlete at predominately white colleges and universities. Pay to Play: Race and the Perils of the College Sports Industrial Complex takes a hard look at historical and contemporary efforts to control sports participation and compensation for black athletes in amateur sports in general, and in big time college sports programs, in particular. The book begins with background on the history of amateur athletics in America, including the forced separation of black and white athletes. Subsequent sections examine subjects such as the integration of college sports and the use of black athletes to sell everything from fast food to shoes, and argues that college athletes must receive adequate compensation for their labor. The book concludes by discussing recent efforts by college athletes to unionize and control their likenesses, presenting a provocative remedy for transforming bigtime college sports as we know it. FEATURES Examines the longstanding controversy regarding whether colleges must "pay to play" when it comes to being competitive in highprofile sports and how this debate intersects with perceptions of race Suggests a remedy for transforming bigtime college sports that can simultaneously benefit colleges and universities, nonrevenue generating sports, elite college athletes, and professional sports teams Presents provocative and insightful information for scholars and students in the fields of sociology, kinesiology, education, gender studies, black history, sports management, urban studies, communications, and labor relations as well as for current athletes, former athletes, and fans of college sports
Abstract Kappa Delta Pi’s Diversity Summit in 2020 offered educators the opportunity to discuss t... more Abstract Kappa Delta Pi’s Diversity Summit in 2020 offered educators the opportunity to discuss the question “What policies need to change to prevent the exodus of prospective teachers of color and teachers of color?” Based on the proceedings, this article addresses policy, advocacy, and allyship for people of color from the prospective teacher phase into the transition to the teaching profession.
The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans creates a multitude of identity crises for Asian... more The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans creates a multitude of identity crises for Asian minorities. Asians who cannot meet the incredibly high standards set before them by such classifications face crises and end up either rebelling against their culture and the dominant White culture or wallowing in shame for their failure to meet said expectations. On a larger scale, the stereotype does not consider class or habitus and forms of capital that this heterogeneous and diverse community possesses. This chapter provides a theoretical examination of the effects of the model minority stereotype on Asian immigrants, with a focus on West Asians. The chapter reveals economic and cultural inequities the model minority stereotype causes within immigrant communities and the larger U.S. society, demonstrating how the stereotyping operates as a subsystem of Whiteness used to promote the inequitable ideology of achieving the American Dream through hard work while bringing racism to the forefront.
Critical storytelling seeks to bring new voices into the academic space and expose the many forms... more Critical storytelling seeks to bring new voices into the academic space and expose the many forms of oppression. Critical storytellers use personal narratives and experiences to bring historically marginalized voices into the academic conversation. They ask questions, offer alternate perspectives, and engage in deep reflection. Their actions challenge readers to decolonize their minds and curricula by questioning the accepted norms to transition beyond what, historically, we deem "good writing" while broadening our understanding of what education is.
Monday, Nov. 13, 6–8 p.m.
Saint Paul Campus
Jason R. Carter Science Education Center, Room 115
J... more Monday, Nov. 13, 6–8 p.m. Saint Paul Campus Jason R. Carter Science Education Center, Room 115
Join us for a free discussion of the model minority stereotype and Asian American masculinity through personal and professional lenses.
Panelists include: Kevin K. Kumashiro, PhD, Kevin Kumashiro Consulting
Nicholas D. Hartlep, PhD, assistant professor of urban education, Metropolitan State University
Brian V. Xiong, EdD, Hmong Archives, East Side Freedom Library
In this Brown Bag session we will discuss "The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U... more In this Brown Bag session we will discuss "The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education" (Routledge). Capturing the voices of Americans living with student debt in the United States, this collection critiques the neoliberal interest-driven, debt-based system of U.S. higher education and offers alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and the corporatized university. Grounded in an understanding of the historical and political economic context, this book offers auto-ethnographic experiences of living in debt, and analyzes alternatives to the current system. Chapter authors address real questions such as, Do collegians overestimate the economic value of going to college? and How does the monetary system that student loans are part of operate? Pinpointing how developments in the political economy are accountable for students' university experiences, this book provides an authoritative contribution to research in the fields of educational foundations and higher education policy and finance.
Storying Pedagogy as Critical Praxis in the Neoliberal University , 2023
This chapter draws on a concept that my colleague Brandon Hensley and I have called "critical sto... more This chapter draws on a concept that my colleague Brandon Hensley and I have called "critical storytelling." I share my experiences in teacher education, experiences riven within a field that is neoliberal, and my path to finding a non-neoliberal liberal arts college where I am happy. Further, I reflect on the deeply complicated interrelationships I have as a department chair who is committed to social justice working with state and national accreditors
The significance of intersectionality in P–20 educational reform research, 2023
Hartlep, N. D., & Ozment, N. (2023). The significance of intersectionality in
P–20 educational r... more Hartlep, N. D., & Ozment, N. (2023). The significance of intersectionality in P–20 educational reform research. In H. Ryan, A. Darder, & C. Hayes (Eds.), Speaking class and race: Contested dialogues in educational Reform (pp. 206–216). New York: Bloomsbury.
Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership 2nd Edition, 2021
This conceptual chapter draws on Human Resources development theory and draws on extant scholarly... more This conceptual chapter draws on Human Resources development theory and draws on extant scholarly research and literature on diverse pre-K–12 urban education leadership, specifically examining the shortage of Asian American teachers and principals in our nation's schools. The chapter is interested primarily in identifying the barriers and the opportunity pathways for America's "model minority" in terms of becoming urban pre-K–12 leaders (principals) in urban school districts. The conceptual framework is both descriptive and prescriptive insofar as it will cast light on possible interventions that would assist professionals across hiring, recruiting, retention, and Human Resources development process to better support Asian American principals.
"Asian Americans and Television" published Race in American Television: Voices and Visions that S... more "Asian Americans and Television" published Race in American Television: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation, by David J. Leonard and Stephanie Troutman Robbins, Editors.
Hartlep, N. D., & Suda, D. (2021). Unboxing Asian/American Transracial Adoptee Collegian Identiti... more Hartlep, N. D., & Suda, D. (2021). Unboxing Asian/American Transracial Adoptee Collegian Identities. In F. A. Bonner, R. M. Banda, & S. L. Smith (Eds.), Square Pegs and Round Holes: Alternative Approaches to Diverse College Student Development Theory (pp. 99–113). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Our chapter offers new information and an international perspective when examining Asians as the ... more Our chapter offers new information and an international perspective when examining Asians as the model minority. We examine the Vietnamese in Germany and posit that the Vietnamese have been treated as an Asian model minority there. Acknowledged for their diligence, educational success, and inconspicuousness, they have been held up as a model of successful integration, and even called ‘Das Vietnamesische Wunder’ [The Vietnamese Miracle] (Spiewak, 2009). We put the stereotype of quiet, hard-working Vietnamese immigrants into a historical context and explore their strategic contributions to their collective images and impact on youth.
Examining Effective Practices at Minority-Serving Institutions, 2019
This chapter shares the experiences of a Puerto Rican dean of a school of urban education and the... more This chapter shares the experiences of a Puerto Rican dean of a school of urban education and the experiences of a Korean department chair, both working at a Midwest Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). They share stories and experiences which are situated within the context of this AANAPISI as well as the literature on higher education leadership in Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). The chapter shares a model of mentorship that builds the capacity of diverse leaders within the School of Urban Education.
Not One, But Many: A CRT Research Team Approach to Investigate Student Experiences in Racially Di... more Not One, But Many: A CRT Research Team Approach to Investigate Student Experiences in Racially Diverse Settings in "Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies : Lessons from the Field," edited by Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby, et al., Routledge, 2018.
“Asians in the Library”: Sophistry and the Conflation of Affirmative and Negative Action in White... more “Asians in the Library”: Sophistry and the Conflation of Affirmative and Negative Action in Whiteucation : Privilege, Power, and Prejudice in School and Society, edited by Jeffrey S. Brooks, and George Theoharis, Routledge, 2018.
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In N. Hartlep (Ed.), The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher ... more (in press) In N. Hartlep (Ed.), The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education: Voices of Students and Faculty. New York, NY: Routledge.
Authors: Dan Collier, T. Jameson Brewer, P. S. Myers, & Allison Witt
In 2020, Kappa Delta Pi’s Diversity Summit convened professional conversation groups to explore r... more In 2020, Kappa Delta Pi’s Diversity Summit convened professional conversation groups to explore recruitment and retention factors influencing prospective teachers of color. Information from groups was interpreted qualitatively; analysis and findings suggested the following emergent themes: (1) Importance of different perspectives and voices, (2) Recognition of systemic racism as experienced by prospective teachers of color, and (3) Strategies used within teacher education programs to address barriers and cultivate successful solutions for prospective teachers of color.
The Kappa Delta Pi 2020 Diversity Summit addressed current issues in the teaching profession. Thi... more The Kappa Delta Pi 2020 Diversity Summit addressed current issues in the teaching profession. This article targets the constructs from the breakout sessions focusing on White privilege as it relates to teacher education and teachers of color.
Kappa Delta Pi's Diversity Summit in 2020 offered educators the opportunity to discuss the questi... more Kappa Delta Pi's Diversity Summit in 2020 offered educators the opportunity to discuss the question "What policies need to change to prevent the exodus of prospective teachers of color and teachers of color?" Based on the proceedings, this article addresses policy, advocacy, and allyship for people of color from the prospective teacher phase into the transition to the teaching profession.
Two of the most prestigious, yet elusive, titles that professors in higher education can earn are... more Two of the most prestigious, yet elusive, titles that professors in higher education can earn are the designations of distinguished professor and endowed chair. These named positions often come with benefits such as salary enhancements, resources for research and teaching, and favorable adjustments of time allocation within a faculty member's position description and job responsibilities. Often, though, mid-career faculty know little about how they can intentionally pursue these positions. This chapter provides tangible tools to assist mid-career faculty in understanding what endowed and distinguished positions are and how to best prepare for and pursue such positions. It also provides recommendations for how institutions can be intentional in supporting such professorial advancements.
Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity, and Leadership, 2020
The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans, especially South Asian Americans, is central to... more The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans, especially South Asian Americans, is central to society's characterization of them as precocial spellers. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a prestigious event where the best spellers from across the United States face off in a high-stakes and highly-televised spelling competition. In this article, the researchers analyze the demographic and geographic characteristics of the winners of this competition. Included in the analyses are responses to questions such as: Are Scripps National Spelling Bee winners more likely to be males or females? Asians or non-Asians? And, what is the average age of winners? Results show that the demographic backgrounds of Scripps National Spelling Bee winners have changed over time, most acutely during the 1980s. Although Asian Americans have been winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee in record numbers in recent years, we problematize both the characterization that they are overrepresented as winners, and the characterization that they are “model minorities.”
Stereotyping Asian Americans as successful or model minorities is not positive. Instead, it is a ... more Stereotyping Asian Americans as successful or model minorities is not positive. Instead, it is a form of racist love that reinforces White supremacy. How can a positive stereotype reinforce White supremacy? Because the process of revering Asian Americans as model minorities leads to other groups of people, such as people of color and Indigenous people, being reviled. But if the model minority characterization of Asian Americans is inaccurate, what should curriculum studies scholars do? Disproving a “stereotype” is impossible. Curriculum studies scholars and theorists should not attempt to disconfirm something that is untrue, or something that is racist, but instead should narrate the reality of being Asian American. The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans has been studied and contested over 50 years within the context of the United States. Over these 50 plus years, the model minority stereotype has taken on a transcendent meaning. Overcoming the dominance of Whiteness requires Asian Americans to transcend “positive” stereotypes via critical storytelling. This will require curriculum studies as a field to continue to interrogate: What are the realities of living in racist Amerika for Asian Americans?
The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans suggests that they are overrepre-sented in Scien... more The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans suggests that they are overrepre-sented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. This article considers 16 years of Intel Westinghouse Science Award finalists (n = 640) data procured online. The data are analyzed to determine whether there are racial/ethnic or gender patterns among the finalists. Social Network Theory informs data analysis and interpretation of results. Findings suggest that homophily, the tendency for people/insti-tutions to interact with similar others, contributes to the demographic patterns of the Intel Westinghouse finalists. Contrary to the expectation that White males from private boarding schools are the most likely to be Intel Westinghouse Science Award finalists, the data indicate that Asian American males who attend public schools are significantly more likely to be finalists.
Introducing this year’s batch of 15 scholars who represent the future of the academy.
For the... more Introducing this year’s batch of 15 scholars who represent the future of the academy.
For the past 19 years, Diverse: Issues In Higher Educationhas recognized an interdisciplinary group of minority scholars who represent the very best of the U.S. academy. This year is no exception. Although the process of selecting our Emerging Scholars —from hundreds of nominations — is always a daunting task, our 2020 cohort of Emerging Scholars is exceptional. These professors have distinguished themselves in their various academic disciplines and are actively working to make our society more equitable and just.
We invite you to take the time to learn more about these scholars and to celebrate their achievements. They are making a difference and changing our institutions of higher education for the better.
Each year Forbes bestows a handful of “edu-preneurs” with the 30 Under 30 Award in Education (Und... more Each year Forbes bestows a handful of “edu-preneurs” with the 30 Under 30 Award in Education (Under30), designating those individuals as the best hope for revolutionizing and reforming education. Boasting low recipient rates, Forbes elevates the manufactured expertise of awardees and the importance of their organizations and ventures. Further, Forbes employs the language and norms of neoliberalism to articulate a pro-market vision of education reform. This social network analytic (SNA) study seeks to untangle the edu-preneur network and critically examine the connections between awardees, their organizations, judges, and the larger education reform network. To this end, we utilized descriptive analyses and SNA. We find evidence that Under30 serves as a mechanism for promoting social closure and ideological homophily within education reform networks. Further, we consider the policy implications that such awards may have on public discourse and policy creation.
In this article, the Education Studies Department (ESD) at Berea College shares lessons learned w... more In this article, the Education Studies Department (ESD) at Berea College shares lessons learned while becoming an inclusive, justice-focused, and democratic Education Preparation Program (EPP) together with its "Community of Teachers" (CoT). ESD values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI+B) and democratic relationships. These values influence how we do our work. We begin by sharing how the theoretical framework of Community of Practice (CoP) frames our case study. After explaining how a CoP applies to ESD's approach to educator preparation, we give an overview of Berea College. We share some of its history and its eight Great Commitments. We detail how ESD is a unique EPP compared with other more traditional EPPs. Next, we chronicle the story of how ESD "walks its talk" and invests in the teacher profession. We detail the participants of the case study, outline our methodology of the case study, and share the data we analyzed for this article. Data were analyzed and three emergent themes were discovered about the praxis of ESD: (a) community-engaged and justice-focused teacher preparation, (b) community building within teacher preparation programs, and (c) diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The article concludes by sharing implications for EPPs and a conclusion.
The experience of adopted college/university students and young adults, and their unique challeng... more The experience of adopted college/university students and young adults, and their unique challenges in understanding the development of their personal identities, is an important topic for research and clinical practice with adopted people. This paper examines college and university students' understanding of how their life experiences of being born Asian but being raised in a non-Asian adoptive family have influenced their personal racial identity formation and how this may have affected their choices of study and career. In addition to subjects' responses to a questionnaire, participants completed five peer-reviewed scales that revealed information about how they perceive their racial identities and their efforts to distinguish genetics from environmental influences on their personal identities. This article reports on the key findings that have significance for psychotherapists treating these students.
Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity, and Leadership, 2021
The model minority stereotype of Asian/Americans, especially South Asian Americans, is central to... more The model minority stereotype of Asian/Americans, especially South Asian Americans, is central to society’s characterization of them as precocial spellers. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a prestigious event where the best spellers from across the United States face off in a high-stakes and highly-televised spelling competition. In this article, the researchers analyze the demographic and geographic characteristics of the winners of this competition. Included in the analyses are responses to questions such as: Are Scripps National Spelling Bee winners more likely to be males or females? Asians or non-Asians? And, what is the average age of winners? Results show that the demographic backgrounds of Scripps National Spelling Bee winners have changed over time, most acutely during the 1980s. Although Asian/Americans have been winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee in record numbers in recent years, we problematize both the characterization that they are overrepresented as winners, and the characterization that they are “model minorities.”
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education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories. Chapters illustrate on-the-ground experiences, elucidating the struggles and triumphs of faculty of color as they navigate the historically White
setting of higher education, and provide actionable strategies to help faculty and administrators combat these issues.
Sugai, Yali Zou, Yong Zhao, Robert Teranishi, Asha K. Jitendra, Shouping Hu, and Ming Ming Chiu. Asian/American Scholars of Education makes an important impact by asking: Why are there so few endowed and distinguished faculty members in Education?
What makes a community? Can we segregate by skin color, or walled off entire cities as in Gaza, and still build responsive and generative social units? We cannot hope to create in the USA the kind of reflective and active society where people learn from each other through dialogue across difference if the dominant white culture refuses a social compact among all members that reflects diversity and solidarity. Sometimes angry, always passionate and principled, the short chapters in Assaults on Communities of Color are like bursts of fire that both illuminate ideas and ignite commitments to critical and inclusive democratic praxis.
(AG Rud, distinguished professor, Washington State University)
The Assault on Communities of Color breaks through all the lies, misconceptions, and distortions that fuel the idea that we now live in a post racial state. Not only does the book explore how race and violence intersect in a myriad of institutional, symbolic, and everyday relations, the authors use this point of analysis to begin a dialogue that is critical, informative, and speaks to the need to develop democratic public spheres and a formative culture in which such a dialogue can take place and move from words, shared values, and ethical responsibility to collective action. The Assault on Communities of Color offers up a signpost and much needed vision that at this particular historical provides a vibrant language, fresh politics, and inspired sense of civic courage. (Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest)
There is a long history of racial, social, and political unrest and injustice in this nation – a historical trauma. Notions about violence have always developed alongside socioeconomic and race-based realities. Views of the nature of violence are rooted in racist and classist worldviews that often place the deficiencies of certain groups’ inability to disrupt racism, cycles of poverty, and educational inequities and the architects of their own urban casualties (Riessman, 1962; Moynihan, 1965. Issues in Ferguson, Missouri and other communities are the newest failure of the larger society to substantially address the systemic issues of racial injustice and violation of human rights in communities of color in the United States. This volume provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs. (Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, PhD, associate professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia)
We live in a time when racial tension is bubbling up and seeping through the cracks in the sidewalk. It is imperative that we as educators take to the streets and classrooms to change the hearts and minds of young people to provide opportunities to and solidify the dignity of all. In The Assault on Communities of Color, Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and their colleagues make it crystal clear that we cannot wait any longer to stand up, and rise up, against injustice. (Marybeth Gasman, professor, University of Pennsylvania)
Searing, gritty, and jarring—this collection of essays brings together theoretical complexity with personal reflections to propel forward the public dialogue on race and violence in the United States today. Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and colleagues implore us to grapple with the intricacies and the excesses of the profoundly normalized nature of the Assault on Communities of Color, even while taking hope in collectivizings that permeate the moment that we are in as being nothing short of building movement for anti-oppressive change. Read this book and join the movement. (Kevin Kumashiro, dean,University of San Francisco School of Education, author of "Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture")
This volume provides a concentrated and powerful dialogue in the wake of recent murders of young Black males and assaults on communities of color. Through a series of conversation starters, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short essays in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color.
education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories. Chapters illustrate on-the-ground experiences, elucidating the struggles and triumphs of faculty of color as they navigate the historically White
setting of higher education, and provide actionable strategies to help faculty and administrators combat these issues.
Sugai, Yali Zou, Yong Zhao, Robert Teranishi, Asha K. Jitendra, Shouping Hu, and Ming Ming Chiu. Asian/American Scholars of Education makes an important impact by asking: Why are there so few endowed and distinguished faculty members in Education?
What makes a community? Can we segregate by skin color, or walled off entire cities as in Gaza, and still build responsive and generative social units? We cannot hope to create in the USA the kind of reflective and active society where people learn from each other through dialogue across difference if the dominant white culture refuses a social compact among all members that reflects diversity and solidarity. Sometimes angry, always passionate and principled, the short chapters in Assaults on Communities of Color are like bursts of fire that both illuminate ideas and ignite commitments to critical and inclusive democratic praxis.
(AG Rud, distinguished professor, Washington State University)
The Assault on Communities of Color breaks through all the lies, misconceptions, and distortions that fuel the idea that we now live in a post racial state. Not only does the book explore how race and violence intersect in a myriad of institutional, symbolic, and everyday relations, the authors use this point of analysis to begin a dialogue that is critical, informative, and speaks to the need to develop democratic public spheres and a formative culture in which such a dialogue can take place and move from words, shared values, and ethical responsibility to collective action. The Assault on Communities of Color offers up a signpost and much needed vision that at this particular historical provides a vibrant language, fresh politics, and inspired sense of civic courage. (Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest)
There is a long history of racial, social, and political unrest and injustice in this nation – a historical trauma. Notions about violence have always developed alongside socioeconomic and race-based realities. Views of the nature of violence are rooted in racist and classist worldviews that often place the deficiencies of certain groups’ inability to disrupt racism, cycles of poverty, and educational inequities and the architects of their own urban casualties (Riessman, 1962; Moynihan, 1965. Issues in Ferguson, Missouri and other communities are the newest failure of the larger society to substantially address the systemic issues of racial injustice and violation of human rights in communities of color in the United States. This volume provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs. (Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, PhD, associate professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia)
We live in a time when racial tension is bubbling up and seeping through the cracks in the sidewalk. It is imperative that we as educators take to the streets and classrooms to change the hearts and minds of young people to provide opportunities to and solidify the dignity of all. In The Assault on Communities of Color, Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and their colleagues make it crystal clear that we cannot wait any longer to stand up, and rise up, against injustice. (Marybeth Gasman, professor, University of Pennsylvania)
Searing, gritty, and jarring—this collection of essays brings together theoretical complexity with personal reflections to propel forward the public dialogue on race and violence in the United States today. Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and colleagues implore us to grapple with the intricacies and the excesses of the profoundly normalized nature of the Assault on Communities of Color, even while taking hope in collectivizings that permeate the moment that we are in as being nothing short of building movement for anti-oppressive change. Read this book and join the movement. (Kevin Kumashiro, dean,University of San Francisco School of Education, author of "Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture")
This volume provides a concentrated and powerful dialogue in the wake of recent murders of young Black males and assaults on communities of color. Through a series of conversation starters, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short essays in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color.
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as a model of successful integration, and even called ‘Das Vietnamesische Wunder’ [The Vietnamese Miracle] (Spiewak, 2009). We put the stereotype of quiet, hard-working Vietnamese immigrants into a historical context
and explore their strategic contributions to their collective images and impact on youth.
In N. Hartlep (Ed.), The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education: Voices of Students and Faculty. New York, NY: Routledge.
Authors: Dan Collier, T. Jameson Brewer, P. S. Myers, & Allison Witt
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For the past 19 years, Diverse: Issues In Higher Educationhas recognized an interdisciplinary group of minority scholars who represent the very best of the U.S. academy. This year is no exception. Although the process of selecting our Emerging Scholars —from hundreds of nominations — is always a daunting task, our 2020 cohort of Emerging Scholars is exceptional. These professors have distinguished themselves in their
various academic disciplines and are actively working to make our society more equitable and just.
We invite you to take the time to learn more about these scholars and to celebrate their achievements. They are making a difference and changing our institutions of higher education for the better.
and highly-televised spelling competition. In this article, the researchers analyze the demographic and geographic characteristics of the winners of this competition. Included in the analyses are responses to questions such as: Are Scripps National Spelling Bee winners more likely to be males
or females? Asians or non-Asians? And, what is the average age of winners? Results show that the demographic backgrounds of Scripps National Spelling Bee winners have changed over time, most
acutely during the 1980s. Although Asian/Americans have been winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee in record numbers in recent years, we problematize both the characterization that they are overrepresented as winners, and the characterization that they are “model minorities.”