Spring 2003 Scholar-in-Residence

	Dr. Carlos Nevarez Assistant Professor, Educational Administration and Policy Studies Latino Faculty in Higher Education: Student Perception and Campus Climate
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Description of Project

Professors of color bring unique identities, perspectives, beliefs, and pedagogical methods that may run against the grain of traditional teaching within the University system. Their emergence into the domain of academia elicits careful examination of the interface between these professors and their students. The question of how professors are perceived by their students in addition to how the professors negotiate the context of this domain is examined within the body of this article. Of particular interest are how these professors engage their students, what adjustments they make to succeed in this domain, and whether they retain their own sense of individuality with an emic perspective or, acquiesce to dominant etic discourse that mutes their potential for uniqueness and capacity to promote social justice principles.