Last week I logged into to Twitter to see two friends and colleagues in a debate about prestige and grades. I asked them, incredulously, who cared about grades in graduate school? I am not just in higher education but I study it. And, I can tell you that grades must be achieved but they are,Read More “What’s In A Name? Robert Lee Mitchell III and Arrianna Marie Coleman”
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Upcoming Talks
I said this would be the semester I don’t go to every conference. Promises, promises. It looks like I will be the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference in Greensboro this April. The talk is based on my experiences of using social media to talk back to powerful organizations. You can likely intuit the case study.Read More “Upcoming Talks”
Trickle Down Feminism Trickles Down On Itself
Back in June I wrote a piece about what I called “trickle down feminism“, about which I said: Trickle-down economics wasn’t the best experience for people like me. You will have to forgive me, then, if I have similar doubts about trickle down feminism. In it I show my work on the term, crediting aRead More “Trickle Down Feminism Trickles Down On Itself”
Towards A Critical Org Theory
Contemporary stratification scholars are unlikely to deny the claim that organizations are the primary site of the production and allocation of inequality in modern societies. Although there is considerable consensus on this point, until recently the use of organizational data to study inequality was rare, due at least in part to the plentiful individual-level dataRead More “Towards A Critical Org Theory”
There Is No Race in Organizations
I continue to work on a comparative case of organizational structures in higher education. T’is what I do. Central to my theorizing and empirical work is that organizations reproduce racial, gender, and class inequality. You would think that goes without saying but race is seriously under-theorized and researched in organizational studies. For a long time,Read More “There Is No Race in Organizations”
Dear Parents, Thanks for the Humans. Signed, Society.
I do not have a living child. That fact has made graduate school somewhat easier for me than it is for my colleagues with children. That is something Melonie Fullick pointed out in her discussion of how traditional graduate school models make matriculation and completion difficult for people who have the audacity to not beRead More “Dear Parents, Thanks for the Humans. Signed, Society.”
The “Future” Of Higher Education?
The 20 Million Minds Fund is sponsoring a talk on the future of higher education today. I’ve followed sporadically on twitter (#20mmreboot). My comrade Audrey Watters is doing a solid service to us all by live-tweeting. I was struck by what I know about the future of higher education and what 20 Million Minds isRead More “The “Future” Of Higher Education?”
Atlanta Sexes: Double Dipping in Manufactured Controversy?
This will be a drive-by post because, well, graduate school. But, I was struck today by an interesting article at The Atlantic. I’ve talked here before about the organizational logic of manufacturing controversy. Trading in racism (and sexism, ableism, any-ism) is a cheap form of currency as media struggles to figure out how to peacefullyRead More “Atlanta Sexes: Double Dipping in Manufactured Controversy?”