ERIC Number: EJ1306654
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 31
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-5748
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Leveraging, Checking, and Structuring Faculty Discretion to Advance Full Participation
O'Meara, KerryAnn
Review of Higher Education, v44 n4 p555-585 Sum 2021
Discretion and faculty exercise of judgment in discretionary spaces are pervasive and essential to full participation. Through everyday engagement with policies, practices, and routines, faculty are in an ideal position to see and address equity issues. However, because discretion can be enacted in ways that reproduce racialized organizations, and amplify privilege, we need checks and balances on faculty discretion in key domains. Sometimes, we need new boundaries within which faculty judgment and discretion reside. I consider these issues and examine strategies inside and outside higher education to leverage, check, and structure faculty judgment and discretion to advance full participation.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Evaluative Thinking, Value Judgment, Decision Making, Educational Strategies, Bias, College Admission, Teacher Selection, Faculty Workload, Faculty Promotion, Tenure, Mentors
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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