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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: Faculty of Color Face the Challenges of the Tenure Track
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Garrison-Wade, Dorothy F.; Diggs, Gregory A.; Estrada, Diane; Galindo, Rene – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
This article highlights some of the obstacles facing tenure-track faculty of color in academia. Through the perspective of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and by using a counterstories method, four faculty of color share their experiences as they explore diversity issues through engaging in a 1-year self-study. Findings of this qualitative study…
Descriptors: Tenure, College Faculty, Barriers, Higher Education
Undocumented & Unafraid: The DREAM Act 5 and the Public Disclosure of Undocumented Status as a Political Act
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Galindo, Rene – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
In 2010, the political advocacy of undocumented immigrant students in support of the DREAM Act took a new and decisive direction when the public disclosure of undocumented status as political act was adopted. This new political strategy included the first case of civil disobedience practiced by a group of undocumented immigrant students now known…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Students, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Advocacy
Smiling Faces and Colored Spaces: The Experiences of Faculty of Color Pursing Tenure in the Academy
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Diggs, Gregory A.; Garrison-Wade, Dorothy F.; Estrada, Diane; Galindo, Rene – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
Through a comprehensive literature review, this article identifies and discusses barriers to recruitment and retention of faculty of color. Marginalization, racism and sexism manifested as unintended barriers are presented as a few of the barriers faculty of color face in successfully navigating the tenure process. Informed by this literature…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Minority Groups, Tenure, Experience
Voices of Identity in a Chicana Teacher's Occupational Narratives of the Self
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Galindo, Rene – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2007
The research area of teacher narrative inquiry has identified links between the personal and professional identities of teachers. Although teacher narrative inquiry takes narrative texts as its data, insufficient attention has been given to the functions of narratives as forms of discourse that are utilized in the construction of identity. In the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Personal Narratives, Bilingualism