Leadership

CRL Research Director, Associate Professor Rebecca Covarrubias, Psychology

Description

CRL develops and pilots research-based programs to amplify scholarly excellence and build communities where all scholars can lead and thrive. We draw on scholarship done by UCSC faculty, mentor graduate student fellows in research projects, and reach well beyond UCSC to integrate the most cutting edge research to inform our programs.  The resources below are some of those we draw from and recommend to others.

Research on Faculty Leadership (***indicates UCSC led projects)

  • ***American Psychological Association, APA Task Force on Inequities in Academic Tenure and Promotion. (2023) APA Task Force Report  on Promotion, Tenure and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology. Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/inequities-academic-tenure-promotion.pdf.
  • Baez, B. (2000). Race-related service and faculty of color: Conceptualizing critical agency in academe. Higher Education, 39(3), 363–391. https:// doi.org/10.1023/A:1003972214943
  • Brown-Glaude, W. R. (2009). Doing diversity in higher education: Faculty leaders share challenges and strategies. Rutgers University Press.
  • ***Covarrubias, R. & Quinteros, K. 2023. “UC Santa Cruz Faculty of Color Exposing and Reforming Structures of Whiteness in Leadership”. Research brief prepared for the UC Hispanic-Serving Institutions Initiative, Oakland, CA.
  • Casado Pérez, J. F. (2019). Everyday resistance strategies by minoritized faculty. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 12(2), 170–179. https:// doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000090
  • Casado Pérez, J. F., Roundtree, S. M., & Pérez, D. C. (2021). Motivation and meaning in everyday resistance by minoritized faculty. Journal of Diver- sity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10 .1037/dhe0000269
  • Delgado Bernal, D., & Villalpando, O. (2002). An apartheid of knowledge in academia: The struggle over the “legitimate” knowledge of faculty of color. Equity & Excellence in Education, 35(2), 169–180. https://doi.org/10.1080/713845282
  • Duncan, P. (2014). Hot commodities, cheap labor: Women of color in the academy. Frontiers, 35(3), 39–63. https://doi.org/10.5250/fronjwomestud .35.3.0039
  • ***Fox Tree, J. E., & Vaid, J. (2022). Why so few, still? Challenges to attracting, advancing, and keeping women faculty of color in academia. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, 238. https://doi. org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.792198
  • Freeman, S., Jr., Krier, K., Al-Asfour, A., & Thacker, R. (2019). An examination of the barriers to leadership for faculty of color at U.S. universities. Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 16, 361–376. https://doi.org/10.28945/4373
  • Guillaume. R. O., & Apodaca, E. C. (2022) Early career faculty of color and promotion and tenure: the intersection of advancement in the academy and cultural taxation. Race Ethnicity and Education, 25(4), 546–563. https://doi.org/10.108 0/13613324.2020.1718084
  • Griffin, K. A., Bennett, J. C., & Harris, J. (2013). Marginalizing merit? Gender differences in Black faculty D/discourses on tenure, advancement, and professional success. Review of Higher Education: Journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, 36(4), 489–512. https:// doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2013.0040
  • Han, K. & Leonard, J. (2017). Why diversity matters in rural America: Women faculty of color challenging Whiteness. The Urban Review, 49 (1), 112–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-016-0384-7
  • Hirshfield, L. E., & Joseph, T. D. (2012). ‘We need a woman, we need a black woman’: Gender, race, and identity taxation in the academy. Gender and Education, 24(2), 213–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2011 .606208
  • Kezar, A. (2011). Grassroots leadership: Encounters with power dynamics and oppression. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 24(4), 471–500. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2010.529848
  • Kezar, A., Bertram Gallant, T., & Lester, J. (2011). Everyday people making a difference on college campuses: The tempered grassroots leadership tactics of faculty and staff. Studies in Higher Education, 36(2), 129–151. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070903532304
  • Kezar, A., Holcombe, E., Vigil, D., & Dizon, J. P. M. (2021). Shared Equity Leadership: Making Equity Everyone’s Work. On Shared Equity Leadership Series. Pullias Center for Higher Education.
  • Kezar, A., & Lester, L. (2009). Supporting faculty grassroots leadership. Research in Higher Education, 50(7), 715–740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-009-9139-6
  • Joseph, T. D., & Hirshfield, L. E. (2011) ‘Why don’t you get somebody new to do it?’ Race and cultural taxation in the academy, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34 (1), 121–141. https://doi. org/10.1080/01419870.2010.496489
  • Ledesma, M. C., & Burciaga, R. (2015). Faculty governance at Hispanic- serving institutions through the lens of critical race theory. In J. Perez Mendez, F. A. Bonner, II, J. Méndez-Negrete, & R. T. Palmer (Eds.), Hispanic-serving institutions in American higher education: Their origin, and present and future challenges (pp. 40–57). Stylus Publishing.
  • ***Quinteros, K. N., & Covarrubias, R. (2023, January 12). Reimagining Leadership Through the Everyday Resistance of Faculty of Color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000471
  • Settles, I. H., Jones, M. K., Buchanan, N. T., & Dotson, K. (2021). Epistemic exclusion: Scholar(ly) devaluation that marginalizes faculty of color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 14(4), 493–507. https:// doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000174
  • Settles, I. H., Buchanan, N. T., & Dotson, K. (2019). Scrutinized but not recognized: (In)visibility and hypervisibility experiences of faculty of color. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 113, 62–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.003
  • Trejo, J. (2020). The burden of service for faculty of color to achieve diversity and inclusion: The minority tax. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 31(25), 2752-2754.
  • Turner, C. S. V., González, J. C., & Wong (Lau), K. (2011). Faculty women of color: The critical nexus of race and gender. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 4(4), 199–211. https://doi.org/10.1037/ a0024630
  • Turner, C. S. V., González, J. C., & Wood, J. L. (2008). Faculty of color in academe: What 20 years of literature tells us. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 1(3), 139–168. https://doi.org/10 .1037/a0012837
  • Villarreal Sosa, L., Garcia, G. A., & Bucher, J. (2022). Decolonizing faculty governance at Hispanic serving institutions. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15381927221126781