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Understanding the “Tools of Whiteness” (Notes from AERA, Part 2)

by Dr. Emery Petchauer, June 14, 2009

A common figure in teacher education is that roughly 90 percent of public school teachers in the United States identify as White. As the percentage of ethnic minority students continues to rise, teacher training and professional development often include diversity training or a focus on multicultural education. Alternative routes into teaching

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Diversity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, June 5, 2009

Why is it that people assume that Historically White Institutions are diverse, yet in the same breath assume that Historically Black Institutions are not?  And, when I say people -- I mean all kinds of people -- of various racial and ethnic backgrounds.  If you take a look at the

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Are a Boy's Chances Better at Becoming a Sports Star or a Doctor?

by Dr. James Ewers, May 28, 2009

I often ask young children, especially boys, what they want to do when they reach adulthood. One of the most repeated answers is that they want to become professional athletes. The two primary sports that they have an interest in, and not to my surprise, are basketball and football. It

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Slam-Dunking Sports Myths: Thoughts from a “dumb jock” professor

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, May 14, 2009

As a professor, one of my major jobs is to choose or follow something called a research agenda. Once chosen, we devote lots of time learning about that particular area, becoming somewhat of an expert and parlaying the information back to larger audiences (in theory, although some of us, quite

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The Case Against Cultural Standardization in Tenure Decisions

by Dr. Christopher Metzler, April 6, 2009

There has been a cacophony of voices calling for the elimination of tenure in higher education. Many of those voices are ultra conservative ideologues who are using the tenure debate to excoriate what they see as a liberal-leaning academy. There is a more vexing question that is conveniently absent from

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