ADVANCE Journal

03/24/2025

New Article! 📣 In our latest publication—Empower Through Inclusivity: Developing Pathways to Success—Drs. Brooke Long-Fox, Laurie Anderson, Dan Dolan, Roger Nielsen, Elizabeth Racz, Lance Roberts, Andrea Surovek, and Lisa Kunza asks how can universities empower faculty to drive change? The article explores how a STEM university implemented an Advocates & Allies program, peer mentor circles and policy changes to empower faculty and create a culture of development. While long-term impacts are still developing, this initiative provides a blueprint for fostering sustainable faculty development and improving campus climate. Learn more about this impactful work!

By Brooke L. Long-Fox, Laurie C. Anderson & 6 more. A case study of an NSF ADVANCE funded program at a Midwest university that aimed at changing the culture of attrition through Advocates & Allies program and Peer Mentoring Circles.

03/07/2025

In "Faculty Inclusion Before and “After” COVID-19: Investigating the Effects of Caregiving, Health, and Gender," Drs. Shuyin Liu, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Dessie Clark, PhD, and Joya Misra examine the long-term effects of the pandemic on faculty equity and inclusion. Using survey data they study how gender and caregiving status, race, sexuality, rank, and field among faculty shape their feelings of institutional belonging.

Read the full article on ADVANCE Journal.

By Shuyin Liu, Laurel Smith-Doerr & 2 more. Comparing faculty inclusion in 2018 and 2022, Liu et al show it has plummeted for all groups, particularly affecting faculty whose health issues and care burdens were exacerbated by COVID-19

03/06/2025

In our latest publication, "Learning From Each Other: Faculty Peer Mentoring Circles at ADVANCE Institutions," Drs. Maeve McCarthy, Joan Herbers, Lisa Kunza, Brooke Long-Fox, and QiaoFeng Zhang write about how Peer mentoring circles for women faculty benefit participants and can increase their retention in academia.
Read the full article below.

By Maeve L. McCarthy, Joan M. Herbers & 3 more. A study of peer mentoring at ADVANCE institutions.

03/06/2025

Our latest publication is poems by Dr. Ellen Riggle titled: Traumatic Accumulation and Enumeration: A Poetic Voice for Experiences of Prejudice and Discrimination in the Academic Workplace

A powerful read!

By Ellen D.B Riggle. Two poems give voice to individuals with marginalized and stigmatized identities who have experienced prejudice and discrimination in the academic workplace.

02/26/2025

Register and spread the word about our upcoming community-healing session facilitated by Sarina Saturn, PhD and Emma J Coddington Brown on Friday, February 28th. Register here: https://forms.gle/GPRF92Ac3SfzhKrA8

02/24/2025

Remember to register for our upcoming virtual community-healing workshop facilitated by Drs. Sarina Saturn, PhD and Emma J Coddington Brown on Friday, February 28th. At the session we will hold space and practice neuroscience-informed techniques, including emoting, meditation, coping humor, and somatic tuning for supporting ourselves, one another, and our communities in times of change. These contemplative-based resilience exercises allow us to be well to serve well and aid in our individual and collective healing and liberation.

Register here: https://lnkd.in/eWxJRkk2

02/18/2025

ADVANCE Journal is continuing our workshop series focused on healing and community building. Our next offering led by the amazing Dr. Sarina Saturn is on Friday, February 28th. Register here: https://forms.gle/GPRF92Ac3SfzhKrA8

01/16/2025

ADVANCE Journal is thrilled to announce that Dr. Michele Tracy Berger, Dr. Marcia Allen Owens, Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis, and Dr. Kalenda Eaton will co-edit our upcoming Special Issue: Behind Enemy Lines: Advancing the Work of Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Precarious Times and Places. Our Guest Editors will bring their vast experience and expertise in issues of inclusion, equity, and justice in higher education to this Special Issue. We look forward to this collaboration with much excitement.

The call for submissions for the special issue is still open. Please share widely and submit.

The ADVANCE Journal is accepting submissions for a special issue Behind Enemy Lines: Advancing the Work of Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Precarious Times and Places.

01/06/2025

**New Publication**

In our latest publication, "Protecting Racial Justice Advocates from the Harms of Institutional Betrayal at Predominantly White Institutions," authors Christin Mujica, Taylen Day, Evan Hinchliffe, David C. Stanley Jr, and Ana Bridges discuss the many challenges faced by racial justice advocates at PWIs. They argue that while advocacy to dismantle racism is meaningful and may promote resilience, it may also expose people to institutional betrayal and subsequently additional harms such as racial trauma, discrimination, exclusion, and burnout.

This article is part of our special issue on Institutional Betrayal and Academic Trauma.

By Christin Mujica, Taylen Day & 3 more. Institutional betrayal harms racial justice advocates in various ways, this article provides strategies that institutions can implement to better support the racial justice advocates institutions tend to rely on.

01/02/2025

The submission deadline for our next special issue is coming up soon. Consider submitting and share widely!

12/30/2024

We are excited to announce that our latest (general) issue is now live. It has powerful research articles by Esra Ozdenerol, Sue Rosser, Diane Codding, Bennett Goldberg, Sonia Goltz, Patty Sotirin, and colleagues. These articles reflect current issues in higher education that come under the purview of inclusion, equity, and diversity are complex, varied, systemic, and take various implicit and explicit forms. The issue also includes reviews of three new groundbreaking books that examine the experiences of women and scholars of color in STEM higher education by Laurie Boivin Cook, Ana Lucia Fonseca Tapia, and Earl E. Lee and Mary L. Bankhead.

Please read and share widely.

This issue offers important insights into the need for and ways to address inclusion, equity, and justice in higher education at a critical juncture.

12/06/2024

Our latest publication "Avoidable Harm: The High Cost of Institutional Intransigence and Betrayal" by Dr.Sharon Franks is an incisive account of the harmful impacts of institutional stagnancy and intransigence on a group of majority-women academics and the university itself. This personal scholarly narrative offers recommendations for other change-champions and campus administrators. It is part of our special issue on Institutional betrayal and academic trauma.

By Sharon Franks. Franks’ account of the harmful impacts of institutional stagnancy and intransigence on a group of majority-women academics and the university itself offers recommendations for other change-champions and campus administrators.

11/26/2024

**New extended deadline (Feb 4, 2025)**
Call for submissions for our next special issue is out!

*Behind Enemy Lines: Advancing the Work of Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Precarious Times and Places*

Read the full CFP here: https://lnkd.in/epQp6fAZ

Please share widely and submit. 📖

11/25/2024

In our latest publication, "Becoming Invisible: Resistance Strategies Among Black women Activists in Higher Education," authors Dr. Taylor Geyton, Dr. Lainey Sevillano, Gerri K. Connaught, PhD, LMSW, and Fatima Mabrouk, MSW examine unequal pathways to tenure and graduation, challenging campus climates, harsher critique, underrepresentation, and microaggressions faced by Black women in institutions of higher education. They show that despite consistent and perpetual misrepresentations by the media and ongoing cultural alienation within academic communities, Black women continue to carve out space for themselves, as learners, educators, and resistors within the academy. Situated within a critical race feminist framework, the authors explore Black women activists’ strategic use of silence as a form of resistance against gendered racism and epistemic violence in postsecondary institutions. Drawing from semi-structured interviews they uncover the deliberate ways in which Black women resist oppressive structures within academia and illuminate the agency and resilience of Black women activists and contribute to a broader dialogue on social justice and equity within higher education.

This article is part of our special issue on Institutional Betrayal and Academic Trauma. Many thanks to our guest editor Annmarie Caño, PhD, LP, BCC, ACC who shepherded this article to publication.

By Taylor A. Geyton, Lalaine Sevillano & 2 more. Black women in academia employ strategic silencing to navigate bias and assert agency. This study highlights the challenges they face and the ways they resist as activists within academic institutions.

11/24/2024

We took the ADVANCE Journal to National Women's Studies Association Conference in Detroit and had the most generative time connecting with other feminist publishers, meeting scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum, and introducing our journal to folks doing important work at the intersections of STEM, gender studies, and equity in higher education. We strategized about how to keep expanding open-access publishing and to continue holding space for multiple forms of knowledges.
We also got to spend time with our amazing Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University colleagues.
Susan Shaw

11/10/2024

ADVANCE Journal will be at the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference next week. Come meet us at the exhibition hall to talk about our upcoming special issue and other things related to institutional transformation and equity in higher education

10/07/2024

Our latest publication is a review of Dr. Ebony McGee’s "Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation," by Dr. Earl E. Lee and Mary L. Bankhead. The authors highlight McGee's critical examination of the pervasive racial biases in STEM fields and their detrimental effects on Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students. They discuss McGee's compelling vision for a reimagined, inclusive STEM education system, ultimately aiming to transform STEM’s future by centering racial equity and justice.

By Earl E. Lee, Mary L. Bankhead. The persistent lack of diversity in STEM fields is stifling innovation, as racial biases and structural barriers prevent Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students from fully contributing to groundbreaking advancements.

10/03/2024

ADVANCE Journal is excited to invite submissions for our next special issue–Behind Enemy Lines: Advancing the Work of Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Precarious Times and Places.

ADVANCE Journal invites explorations of the experiences and impacts of the changing landscape of higher education in places where academic freedoms and IEJ efforts are under attack. Submissions can be research papers, personal narratives, theoretical essays, literature reviews, project assessments, poetry, performance, music, multimedia submissions, and art that speak to the current crisis in higher education of working toward inclusion, equity, and justice behind enemy lines. We are especially interested in work that features the use of data justice principles in evidence-informed IEJ initiatives.

Read the full call on ADVANCE Journal website: https://lnkd.in/diWy4XtB