ADVANCE Journal: Individual and Institutional Transformation for Social Justice

**New Publication** In our latest publication, "Protecting Racial Justice Advocates from the Harms of Institutional Betrayal at Predominantly White Institutions," authors Christin Mujica M.A., Taylen Day, Evan Hinchliffe, David C. Stanley Jr., PhD, and Ana Bridges discuss the many challenges faced by racial justice advocates at PWIs. They argue that while advocacy to dismantle racism is meaningful and may promote resilience, it may also expose people to institutional betrayal and subsequently additional harms such as racial trauma, discrimination, exclusion, and burnout. This article is part of our special issue on Institutional Betrayal and Academic Trauma.

The submission deadline for our next special issue is coming up soon. Consider submitting and share widely!

We are excited to announce that our latest (general) issue is now live. It has powerful research articles by Esra Ozdenerol, Sue Rosser, Diane Codding, Ph.D., Bennett Goldberg, Sonia Goltz, Patty Sotirin, and colleagues. These articles reflect current issues in higher education that come under the purview of inclusion, equity, and diversity are complex, varied, systemic, and take various implicit and explicit forms. The issue also includes reviews of three new groundbreaking books that examine the experiences of women and scholars of color in STEM higher education by Laurie Boivin Cook, Ana Lucia Fonseca Tapia, and Earl E. Lee and Mary L. Bankhead. Please read and share widely. #STEMEquity #EquityinSTEM #ADVANCEJournal

Our latest publication "Avoidable Harm: The High Cost of Institutional Intransigence and Betrayal" by Dr. Sharon Franks is an incisive account of the harmful impacts of institutional stagnancy and intransigence on a group of majority-women academics and the university itself. This personal scholarly narrative offers recommendations for other change-champions and campus administrators. It is part of our special issue on Institutional Betrayal and Academic Trauma. #InstitutionalBetrayal #AcademicTrauma #HigherEd #Equity #WomeninSTEM #STEMEquity Deep gratitude to our Special Issue Guest Editor Stephani Page, PhD for steering this article towards publication.

Our upcoming Special Issue—Behind Enemy Lines—seeks to address long standing and emerging battle lines in the struggle for inclusion, equity, and justice in higher education. **Submissions due: 4 February, 2014** Full CFP: https://lnkd.in/diWy4XtB

**New extended deadline (Feb 4, 2025)** Call for submissions for our next special issue is out! *Behind Enemy Lines: Advancing the Work of Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Precarious Times and Places* Read the full CFP here: https://lnkd.in/epQp6fAZ Please share widely and submit. 📖

In our latest publication, "Becoming Invisible: Resistance Strategies Among Black women Activists in Higher Education," authors Dr. Taylor Geyton, Dr. Lainey Sevillano, Gerri K. Connaught, PhD, LMSW, and Fatima Mabrouk, MSW examine unequal pathways to tenure and graduation, challenging campus climates, harsher critique, underrepresentation, and microaggressions faced by Black women in institutions of higher education. They show that despite consistent and perpetual misrepresentations by the media and ongoing cultural alienation within academic communities, Black women continue to carve out space for themselves, as learners, educators, and resistors within the academy. Situated within a critical race feminist framework, the authors explore Black women activists’ strategic use of silence as a form of resistance against gendered racism and epistemic violence in postsecondary institutions. Drawing from semi-structured interviews they uncover the deliberate ways in which Black women resist oppressive structures within academia and illuminate the agency and resilience of Black women activists and contribute to a broader dialogue on social justice and equity within higher education. This article is part of our special issue on Institutional Betrayal and Academic Trauma. Many thanks to our guest editor Annmarie Caño, PhD, LP, BCC, ACC who shepherded this article to publication. #Institutionalbetrayal #academictrauma #equityinSTEM #equityinhighered #racialjustice #criticalracefeminisms

We took the ADVANCE Journal to National Women's Studies Association Conference in Detroit and had the most generative time connecting with other feminist publishers, meeting scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum, and introducing our journal to folks doing important work at the intersections of STEM, gender studies, and equity in higher education. We strategized about how to keep expanding open-access publishing and to continue holding space for multiple forms of knowledges. We also got to spend time with our amazing Oregon State University collegues. Nithya Rajan Susan Shaw Sarina Saturn, PhD

ADVANCE Journal will be at the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference next week. Come meet us at the exhibition hall to talk about our upcoming special issue and other things related to institutional transformation and equity in higher education #nwsa2024 #NWSA

Esra Ozdenerol explores four major issues faced by STEM women faculty: implicit bias, isolation, ambiguity and inequality in career advancement, and poor work-life-family integration and the impact of the ASPIRED (Adaptations for Sustainable Policies and Increased Recruitment Excellence in Diversity) project at the University of Memphis. Read Ozdenerol's article: ASPIRED Project’s Impact on Gender Equity in STEM: Establishing the Foundation for Institutional Transformation. #equityinSTEM #STEMequity #GenderEquity