Rearticulating the Leadership Experiences of African American Women in Midlevel Student Affairs Administration
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Hannah L Clayborne
This qualitative study of African American women holding midlevel administrative positions sought to broaden and challenge conceptualizations of leadership by focusing on respondents’ descriptions of their leadership experiences. Findings centered principally on the intensely relational qualities associated with leadership and leading, mentoring and supervising, and the off-campus nature of most sources for professional support and validation. Tenets of Black feminist thought (Collins, 2000) were used to analyze aspects of respondents’ experiences in light of controlling images of Black women, resistance strategies, and empowerment for activism. Implications for research and practice include further explorations of culturally informed meanings of leadership and leading, as well as coming to broader understandings of professionals’ myriad definitions and fulfillment of leadership.
©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Table of Contents
- Comments from the NASPA Journal Editor
- Great Expectations and the Ultimate Reality Check: Voices of Students During the Transition from High School to College
- Indecision and an Avalanche of Expectations: Challenges Facing Sophomore Resident Assistants
- First-Generation Status and Student Race/Ethnicity as Distinct Predictors of Student Involvement and Learning
- Health, Culture, HIV/AIDS, and Latino/a College Students
- Applying Social Norms Theory within Affiliation Groups: Promising Interventions for High-Risk Drinking
- Rearticulating the Leadership Experiences of African American Women in Midlevel Student Affairs Administration
- Who We Really Are: Demographic Factors that Predict Student Service Leadership
- Transforming Student Affairs Strategic Planning into Tangible Results
- Experiences with Diversity in the Curriculum: Implications for Graduate Programs and Student Affairs Practice
- Student Affairs and Hurricane Katrina: Contextual Perspectives from Five Institutions of Higher Education in New Orleans
- Book Reviews
- NASPA Journal Volume 44, Number 1
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Table of Contents
- Comments from the NASPA Journal Editor
- Great Expectations and the Ultimate Reality Check: Voices of Students During the Transition from High School to College
- Indecision and an Avalanche of Expectations: Challenges Facing Sophomore Resident Assistants
- First-Generation Status and Student Race/Ethnicity as Distinct Predictors of Student Involvement and Learning
- Health, Culture, HIV/AIDS, and Latino/a College Students
- Applying Social Norms Theory within Affiliation Groups: Promising Interventions for High-Risk Drinking
- Rearticulating the Leadership Experiences of African American Women in Midlevel Student Affairs Administration
- Who We Really Are: Demographic Factors that Predict Student Service Leadership
- Transforming Student Affairs Strategic Planning into Tangible Results
- Experiences with Diversity in the Curriculum: Implications for Graduate Programs and Student Affairs Practice
- Student Affairs and Hurricane Katrina: Contextual Perspectives from Five Institutions of Higher Education in New Orleans
- Book Reviews
- NASPA Journal Volume 44, Number 1
