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Tag: Academia: Page 2
Faculty & Staff
Can I Meet With You? Yet, Never Give You Credit for Your Labor
A couple months ago a woman of color colleague posted a pro tip on social media stating that if you want labor from women of color be sure to give credit where credit is due. I had a gut reaction as years of my own pathway through higher education ignited in my brain.
October 16, 2019
Students
On Being Told to Manage Money That I Don’t Have
I’ve been a saver ever since I can remember. The skills of bargain hunting and money management were ingrained in me from an early age by a coupon-collecting mother and a father who did his best negotiating in garage sale driveways – not skills developed for fun but for survival, not unlike many students who have grown up in households with little-to-no income.
September 30, 2019
African-American
Dear Academia. . .
This is year-two on tenure track. I am already behind in meeting writing goals, lesson plans for my courses, professional applications, and getting that next grant out. You reminded me earlier this week that you have very high expectations and with those expectations come yearly cycles of rejection.
September 16, 2019
Opinion
‘We Didn’t Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Us:’ The Importance Of Ethnic Studies
I once heard a story about a man that needed to go North from Mexico to the United States in the 1940s. At the time, Guerrero, Mexico was depleted of resources and there were no jobs for the people. It spread throughout the city that there was work in the United States through a temporary workers program. The man knew this was his chance to go North so he went to where all the laborers were gathering to leave.
July 16, 2019
Opinion
Tearing at my Heart: The First Year on Tenure Track
I reached for the tissue box and it was empty. The tears trickled down my face at a faster pace than usual. I rushed to the bathroom to replenish my tissue box. I slowly slipped into an uncontrollable sob. I felt like I was an infant again overwhelmed with emotions but left without the words to explain the depth of what I was feeling. Were these tears of joy, happiness, sadness, restlessness, exhaustion or hurt?
July 1, 2019
Women
‘I Just Said That!’
Have you ever had that moment when you were in a meeting and proposed an idea for consideration to solve a problem? In an instance, you are abruptly interrupted. Your colleague regurgitated your idea as if it was their own. As you look around the table for a connection of affirmation, in your head you are thinking, “I just said that!”
April 15, 2019
Opinion
Publish or Perish: How to Rid Yourself of Fear
Recently, my colleague Dr. Raquel Wright-Mair at the University of Northern Colorado virtually invited me to guess lecture in her graduate course regarding my op-eds. It is always an honor to share space with colleagues and students across the nation. A graduate student in her course posed a question that I have been reflecting on for the last several days. The student asked, “Do you have fear when it comes to writing these opinion pieces?” Fear and writing go hand in hand in all that we do in academia.
February 18, 2019
Opinion
‘Please Call Me Dr.’
For the past three years I have had students who were “offended” or “insulted” because I have made it a point for them to call me Dr. Garcia.
December 20, 2018
Women
An Open Letter from the “Hot Tamale” aka Your Latina Professor
Unfortunately, I have learned through the years the act of performing “what a professor looks like.” How I present and perform in the university classroom has vast implications for myself as a woman of color in the academy.
September 10, 2018
Opinion
My Father to Me, Is the Father He Never Had
I have had the privilege of having my father in my life. Like my best friend, my father’s father was absent from his life. My father to me, is the father he never had.
June 13, 2018
Opinion
#ReclaimingMyTime
As I learn how to say “no” every day, it does not go without care. I need to put my best foot forward and be the best possible version of myself. As difficult as it is for us to say “no” as women of color in academics, I will as I #ReclaimMyTime.
June 4, 2018
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