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CFP 24 - Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Under Siege: Power, Resistance, and Solidarity in Higher Education
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Sponsors: Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Educational Problems

Organizers: Amani M. Awwad, SUNY Canton
Christina Perez, Dominican University

Presider/Discussant: Christina Perez, Dominican University

Description: 

Students, faculty, and institutions face escalating authoritarian threats such as political attacks, funding cuts, and efforts to silence academic inquiry. These assaults intensify longstanding racial, ethnic, gendered, and class disparities within higher education. This session examines how authoritarian pressures reinforce inequality and how communities of scholars and students are developing practices of resistance, solidarity, and participatory democracy. Ethnic studies and other critical traditions have historically played a central role in these struggles, and they continue to provide vital frameworks for surviving this moment, resisting authoritarianism, and fighting for liberation.

Papers:

“‘Canada Is Welcoming, but…’: Racism, Discrimination, and Macroaggressions among International Students in Nova Scotia, Canada,” Eugena Kwon, Trent University

“Equity and Excellence: A Mixed-Methods Study of Research Funding Disparities and Success among Women Faculty of Color at a Research-Intensive University,” Mary Strawderman, Virginia Commonwealth University

“Missing the Boat: Social Class and Extracurriculars in the Elite Education-to-Employment Pipeline,” Joyce J. Kim and Tristan Ly, University of Pennsylvania

“Pedagogy amidst Polarization: Teaching Systemic Inequalities alongside the Rise of Far-Right Student Organizing,” Melissa A. Alvare, Monmouth University

“Racialized Framing in Higher Education Policy: A Case Study from Florida,” Annie Jones, University of Central Florida

“Racism and Microaggressions among International Students in a Small Ontario City: Implications for Multiculturalism and Global Education,” Anthony Mensah and Eugena Kwon, Trent University

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