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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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23904: Can We Talk? A Critical BIPOC Faculty (and Allies) Conversation

Saturday, July 26, 2025
13:00 - 15:00 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B3-m2
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/WyxaDk
The purpose of the proposed PDW is to engage BIPOC faculty, and their allies, in a critical conversation to gain insights and perspectives about teaching and researching in the current sociopolitical climate. Further, it is to establish a network within the academic ecosystem for scholars who value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and see this work essential to their career. Often, these scholars are viewed as organizational outsiders within (Proudford & Thomas, 1999), or DEI hires, yet put forth their best effort to prepare the next generation of organizational leaders to be inclusive, principle-based, humanistic leaders. However, it may be increasingly difficult to not only survive but thrive in academic settings where what they value is diminished by forces beyond their control, leaving them with many critical questions about their chosen profession and career trajectory. These questions may emerge for various reasons and have different responses based on several contextual factors that may come into play and intersect in varying ways: different academic stages (e.g., doctoral students, pre-tenure, post-tenure), institutional type (PWI/HBCU/HSSI, private/public, elite), racial/ethnic group membership, GLBTQ identification, age, etc. BIPOC faculty attempt to balance what's happening in society with what we know/believe to be the topics of importance for our specific courses/students yet must also consider, to varying extents, course/performance evaluations, organizational politics/dynamics. Several moderated questions, as well as challenges, rewards, risks, etc., associated with being a BIPOC faculty member, will be explored.