Education
Topics Discussed in this Episode:The adjunct crisis in higher ed.Kelly’s shift from religious studies work to higher ed journalism.Religions and higher ed as institutions and systems of power relations.Applying PhD training to a different field, viewing PhD training as training in thinking, and using of data to answer difficult questions.Why academia is not a cult and the role of agency.Kelly’s decision to rock the boat and write about controversial topics like being an adjunct, a woman, a mother, and a first gen college student.Moving from the Sexism Ed column at Chronicle Vitae to Sexism Ed the book.Using Women in Higher Ed as a platform to highlight the work of amazing women doing incredible things.The consequences of universities protecting men who were abusers and serial harrassers for decades.Paying sexual abuse and harrassment settlements without doing the hard work of changing campus culture.Hope for a better future in higher ed in student activists who are holding campuses accountable for racism, homophobia, and sexism.Resources Discussed in this Episode:Kelly J. BakerWomen in Higher EducationDisability ActsSexism Ed at Chronicle VitaeSexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in AcademiaMusic Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.