Presentation Title
Presentation Themes
Leadership and Management
Presentation Type
Best Practice Presentation (45 minute presentation about a specific best practice)
Abstract
What obligations do academic leaders have to address the ways whiteness impacts departmental and campus climates? And what are some strategies chairpersons can take to mitigate the ways whiteness creates inequitable conditions for students, faculty, and staff success? Participants in this session will have an opportunity to discuss these and other questions and explore the requirements of academic leadership that is avowedly antiracist.
Keywords
leadership; whiteness; privilege; oppression; racism
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Recommended Citation
Owen, David S. (2020). "Antiracist Academic Leadership: Confronting Whiteness," Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings. https://newprairiepress.org/accp/2020/leadership/6
Included in
Educational Leadership Commons, Higher Education Administration Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons
Antiracist Academic Leadership: Confronting Whiteness
What obligations do academic leaders have to address the ways whiteness impacts departmental and campus climates? And what are some strategies chairpersons can take to mitigate the ways whiteness creates inequitable conditions for students, faculty, and staff success? Participants in this session will have an opportunity to discuss these and other questions and explore the requirements of academic leadership that is avowedly antiracist.
