This seminar examines scholarship on faculty, administration, and governance in higher education, with particular attention to how institutional structures, roles, and power relations shape academic work and organizational life. Grounded in critical and equity-centered perspectives, the seminar engages research on faculty work, professional socialization, careers, and work environments, as well as the administrative and governance contexts within which faculty labor is organized and evaluated. Students will explore how faculty roles intersect with institutional leadership, governance arrangements, and policy environments, and how these dynamics influence teaching, research, service, and relationships with students and student outcomes. The seminar also attends to how faculty and administrative work are shaped by broader organizational and policy conditions, including (in)equity, stratification, accountability, and institutional change within higher education. This seminar emphasizes conceptual frameworks and research traditions that support scholarly inquiry into faculty, administration, and governance as interconnected sites of power, practice, and institutional transformation.
Credits: 3.0