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Inhabiting the Borders - Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities (Hardcover, New)
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Inhabiting the Borders - Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Higher Education
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This study explored the experience of foreign language faculty in
American colleges and universities. Foreign language faculty,
because of the gender make-up of the field, their employment
status, and their intellectual reputation are a particularly
marginalized subset of the professoriate. Therefore, by studying
their experience, it is possible to gain insights into the causes
and effects of faculty marginalization in general--insights that
are much needed in order to distribute academic power more evenly.
In addition, in an increasingly globalized world, foreign language
as a field of study and teaching makes important contributions to
higher education, the U.S. economy, and more broadly, the promotion
of cultural awareness and global understanding.
The study revealed that foreign language faculty population in
terms of faculty status and rank. Women, faculty in the "less
commonly taught languages," and responded to their marginalization
in different ways, with faculty in the less commonly taught
languages working most proactively to improve their status. Faculty
administrative duties, such as committee service, appear to be a
key way that faculty can work to alleviate their own
marginalization, and participants also offered a variety of
suggestions for institutional policy changes that would improve
their experience.
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