{"title":"“I Have No Time for Anything:” Differences in Faculty Research Productivity during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Megan M. Carpenter, David A. Cotter, C. Berheide","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"Research investigating the impact of the pandemic on university faculty has highlighted the extreme time and energy demands that have negatively affected scholarly productivity (Krukowski et al., 2020). The present study examines barriers to scholarly productivity that faculty at three small liberal arts colleges in New York State encountered during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results suggest that women and parents of children 18 and under living at home encountered more barriers to scholarly productivity than men and participants without children in this age range, signaling potentially devastating long-term career outcomes, especially for pre-tenure mothers of young children. Considering this rapidly worsening equity issue, recommendations are made for considering an achievement relative to opportunity policy for tenure and promotion reviews.","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42092387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Rebecca M. Warner, S. Saturn, K. Furman, S. Shaw","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44736536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reclaiming, Recalibrating Political and Ideological Clarity in Our Praxis","authors":"Susana Y. Flores, G. Blum, Yishan Lea","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"The pandemics of COVID-19, racial injustice, and inequality have brought the country to a screeching halt. Minoritized faculty at the intersection of race, class, gender, linguistic identity, and national origin have been impacted in profound ways. The researchers here discuss the ongoing challenges using Roy’s Portal metaphor and Freire’s political and ideological clarity to shed light on the failure of institutions of higher learning and on the opportunities of this historical moment to reexamine and recalibrate our praxis of liberation.","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43345054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monica C. Schneider, Leigh Graham, Abigail S. Hornstein, K. LaRiviere, K. Muldoon, Stephanie L. Shepherd, R. Wagner
{"title":"Caregiving, Disability and Gender in Academia in the Time of COVID-19","authors":"Monica C. Schneider, Leigh Graham, Abigail S. Hornstein, K. LaRiviere, K. Muldoon, Stephanie L. Shepherd, R. Wagner","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"We are a community of academic women who parent children with disabilities. In this essay, we draw on our experiences as mother-scholars and our collective experiences as an affinity community to demonstrate how the university system often ignores us as whole people, fragmented between our worlds as academics and as carers. We offer this integrated systems-of-care model as a counternarrative to the dominant emphasis on hyperindividualism in the neoliberal U.S. university system.","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46720092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender, Relationship Status, and COVID-19","authors":"S. Bates","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a personal reflection about being a single woman in academia during the COVID-19 pandemic. I describe how the pandemic has influenced my mental health and well-being and my feelings of connectedness to my institution, colleagues, and students. I discuss how gender, relationship status, and singlism may have influenced the social support and workload of single female faculty during the pandemic, and the need to explore these phenomena more intentionally to support and retain diverse women in the academy. By tying research examples to my personal experience, I hope to inform a conversation about how institutions can be more inclusive and intentional about challenging inequities associated with gender, relationship status, and singlism, along with combating social isolation and supporting better work-life balance for female faculty members who are not partnered and do not have children.","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43528214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patti Duncan, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Marieme S. Lo
{"title":"Women of Color Faculty Reimagining Institutional Spaces During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Patti Duncan, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Marieme S. Lo","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.13","url":null,"abstract":"As women of color faculty who have experienced challenges associated with hostile work environments within predominantly white institutions, we consider the ways that working remotely during COVID-19 offers transformative possibilities for reimagining our relationship to the academy. We discuss our embodied responses to institutional spaces that often marginalize faculty of color; how university leadership may be reimagined through a blurring of gendered, racialized lines of “public” and “private” (or institutional and domestic) spaces; and the possibility of healing from the trauma associated with oppressive workplaces and institutional betrayals.","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44553120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pedagogical Consciousness-Raising: Teaching Race, Gender, and Science in the Pandemic","authors":"Cathryn Bailey","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.11","url":null,"abstract":"In this personal essay I explore how the pandemic crisis has helped transform my general education undergraduate course, Race, Gender, and Science, into an experience of pedagogical consciousness-raising, especially for members of vulnerable student groups that have often felt understandably negative toward, and alienated from, science. I base my observations on student comments and anecdotes shared during my fully online Fall 2020 semester. I conclude that STEM-adjacent classes such as mine might productively leverage the pandemic crisis —including the legitimate outrage and frustration of students of color and women —to facilitate a stronger sense of emotional investment by students in the value and practice of science even as legitimate critiques of science are strengthened and deepened.","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41984572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recovering What was Stolen by Embracing the Process of Rebuilding","authors":"Elizabeth A. Lee","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.14","url":null,"abstract":"This essay recounts a journey of one woman in higher education responding to and coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. The journey for all women in STEM is diverse, yet likely one common thread is a high standard for competence. Our ability to feel confident in our competence is threatened by the isolation and disruption brought on by the pandemic. The hope is that by sharing this personal narrative, the reader may be inspired to rebuild the areas of life needing attention. Self-care is time well spent, if for no other reason than to be able to regain what was lost. The ultimate goal is to rebuild back to a point of being resilient enough to serve as advocates for ourselves and others. By serving as confident advocates, women are well positioned to provoke the changes needed in order for institutions to effectively persevere during times of crisis.","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70660139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forget Cleaning the House and Doing the Service, Keep Your Sanity: One Scientist’s and Mother’s Story of Not Just Surviving, but Thriving during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Sonya M. Schuh","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.15","url":null,"abstract":"Here, I describe my personal journey as a STEM professor during the pandemic, and my struggles and successes with online teaching, research, and dealing with COVID-19, as a single mother of three children. I share my story and advice—dirty dishes, imperfections, and all. My message, based on the lived experiences of myself and many of my colleagues, evidence-based facts, and research is simple – we must learn to say no and focus our energy and strength on those things that will directly advance our promotion and that we are passionate about, not on the endless, discounted service roles we typically do. I recognize our ability to do so varies across differences of rank, race, gender, sexuality, and age. I also shed light on research on gendered institutional service and caregiving disparities, the physiology of stress and disease, systemic racism, and the disproportionate, amplified impacts the pandemic is having on women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) faculty. Gender and racial inequalities, stress, service, and caregiving demands have exponentially increased with the pandemic, which will result in long term health and economic impacts far beyond COVID-19, unless great institutional changes are made. I highlight what my institution has done well, has struggled with, and what still needs to be done. In addition to the typical extensions in the R&T (Rank and Tenure) process, which notably take women and BIPOC faculty farther away from their research and higher wages, I outline more important institutional strategies and adaptations that are needed for the viability and health of women, BIPOC, and caregiving faculty, and hence higher education as a whole. Importantly, those institutions that will fare the best will be those that take care of their faculty and students and provide truly meaningful assistance in more than just their mission statements and rhetoric.","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70660602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Is Okay? The Harm of One-Dimensional Appraisals of Women Scholars During COVID-19 & Beyond.","authors":"Jennifer M Gómez","doi":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.7","DOIUrl":"10.5399/osu/advjrnl.2.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this essay, I detail how homogenizing appraisals of diverse faculty women during COVID-19 are harmful to all, including myself. I highlight how academic demands to be \"talking heads\" and not full human beings, though not new, is especially harmful in the current era. As a Black woman faculty dealing with the double pandemic of COVID-19 and anti-Black racism, the one-dimensional appraisals of women faculty exclude me: I am not a mother dealing with sexist overburden in household responsibilities that interfere with my work. Instead, I am dealing with isolation and loneliness, which I sublimate through work productivity. Resulting in shame, I also realize that universities could operate differently, recognizing women scholars for their diversity in identities, backgrounds, responsibilities, work styles, and personalities during the pandemic and beyond. Given that work productivity is not synonymous with well-being, I hope my colleagues know that, in this moment, I am not okay.</p>","PeriodicalId":93512,"journal":{"name":"Advance journal (Corvallis, Ore.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122118/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44473195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}