Academics should continue mobilizing against the pervasive racist, anti-Black and patriarchal doctrines that permeate American society, writes Davíd G. Martínez.
Conditionally Accepted
Conditionally Accepted
Many individuals are drawn to higher education, including academic careers, because of academe’s potential for change. Countless prospective and current graduate students note that their desire to make a difference in their communities or society in general was their primary decision to attend graduate training. Unfortunately, many colleges and universities in the U.S. have practiced outright discrimination and exclusion throughout history, particularly against women, people of color, and disabled people/people with disabilities.
Today, academe — like every social institution — is structured hierarchically, producing numerous professional and personal obstacles for academics from marginalized backgrounds. Scholars who are women, of color, lesbian, trans, bisexual, gay, queer, disabled, working-class or poor, immigrants, fat, religious and non-religious minorities, and/or single parents are faced daily with the difficult tension between academe's narrow definition of success and their own politics, identities, needs, happiness, and health.
Conditionally Accepted was created as a freestanding blog in July 2013 as an online space for scholars on the margins of academe. It has steadily grown since, becoming a career advice column for Inside Higher Ed in January 2016. In this column, we provide news, information, personal stories, and resources for scholars who are, at best, conditionally accepted in academe. Conditionally Accepted is an anti-racist, pro-feminist, pro-queer, anti-transphobic, anti-fatphobic, anti-ableist, anti-ageist, anti-classist, and anti-xenophobic online community.
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Conditionally Accepted Archive
September 4, 2020
August 28, 2020
Dian D. Squire, Bianca C. Williams and Frank Tuitt explore how some academic institutions use ideologies and strategies from the past to control, repress and surveil Black people.
August 14, 2020
Zachary S. Ritter and Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt explore the challenges that faculty diversity workers face in institutions that are suffering from toxic whiteness.
August 7, 2020
Zachary S. Ritter and Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt highlight some red flags related to people's experiences working in institutions that are suffering from toxic whiteness.
July 31, 2020
Kate Perry and Tobias T. Gibson offer suggestions for successful male mentorships of women in academe.
July 24, 2020
If the pandemic has interrupted your scholarly writing, this could be the time to explore other genres or to seek coaching or other forms of support, Christina Lux and Tanya Golash-Boza advise.
July 17, 2020
Sarah Manchanda critiques the reinforcing roles race and gender can play in the institutional othering of disability.
July 10, 2020
Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt pens a satirical memo.
June 26, 2020
Many faculty of color work with people operating outside the lines of fair disagreements, yet colleges too frequently are more than willing to simply ignore the situation, argues Anthony Rodriguez.
June 19, 2020
Courtney N. Wright asks, why aren't more administrators who say they support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives reaching out to their black colleagues now?
