"A Little Bit of Everything Ends up Being so Much": The Costs of Involvement

Autor/inn/en	Kniess, Dena; Jones, Sarah
Titel	"A Little Bit of Everything Ends up Being so Much": The Costs of Involvement
Quelle	In: About Campus, 28 (2023) 1, S.4-7 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kniess, Dena)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1086-4822
DOI	10.1177/10864822231169224
Schlagwörter	Student Personnel Workers; Student Organizations; Predominantly White Institutions; Student Participation; Minority Group Students; College Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Student organisations; Schülerorganisation; Studentenorganisation; Studentenvereinigung; Studentenvertretung; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Collegestudent
Abstract	Canonical research and identity-evasive best practices have pushed Student Affairs Professionals (SAP) to limit the applicability and effectiveness of involvement for a swath of the student body. By examining the push for involvement on college campuses, it is imperative to critically examine the impact traditional forms of student engagement have on oppressed and posttraditional populations. If involvement is a valuable component of student life, SAPs must work to make sense of the lived experiences of posttraditional students (Iloh, 2018), as well as those who come from backgrounds for which higher education was not designed to serve and focus on reducing the oppression of communities of color at the intersection of their identities. In this article, the authors make the argument that the prevailing conceptualization of involvement opportunities is limited by white epistemology that centers on "an idealized vision of 'the student body'" (Stewart & Nicolazzo, 2018, p. 135). The "ideal student body" is predominantly "white cisgender-heterosexual men, 18-23 years-old, middle to upper-class, enabled, and (Protestant) Christian" (Stewart & Nicolazzo, 2018, p. 135) and live on-campus. It is necessary to reframe involvement to be identity-affirming and occurring in both physical and virtual spaces. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01