The Landscape of Diversity in U.S. Higher Education Geography

Adams, Joy K.; Solís, Patricia; McKendry, Jean E.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2012.735935

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“…Yes, but. … Yes, we have nearly reached parity at the graduate and postgraduate level but not at the level of faculty, with women-and especially women of color-being sometimes slightly, sometimes drastically underrepresented (Luzzadder-Beach and Macfarlane 2000;Monk, Fortuijn, and Raleigh 2004;Kobayashi 2006;Adams, Sol ıs, and McKendry 2014;Faria et al 2019). In 2018, there were still more than twice as many men as women in tenure-stream faculty positions in geography in the United States (American Association of Geographers [AAG] 2019).…”

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Who Makes Geographical Knowledge? The Gender of Geography’s Gatekeepers

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2020

The Professional Geographer

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Building on the insight that all knowledge is situated and embodied, we analyze the gender of gatekeepers in the production of geographical knowledge in the current Anglophone publication landscape. Our results show that the share of women gatekeepers throughout the three selected sites-handbooks, progress reports, as well as editors and editorial boards of twentytwo geography journals-is consistently between 36 and 42 percent. These averages, however, disguise widely varying figures between different handbooks and journals. Comparing data for journal editors and editorial boards between 1999 and 2017, we find considerable growth in the presence of women. We also show that a higher share of female editors is associated with a higher share of women in editorial boards and in commissioned contributions. Editors and journals therefore need to put gender equity (but also racial and language equality) among the board and among contributors squarely on the agenda to create more space for new theoretical approaches, issues, and methodologies that center the lives and experiences of those living in spaces outside of the white Anglosphere-in the Global South and the Global East but also in the Global North.

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Who Makes Geographical Knowledge? The Gender of Geography’s Gatekeepers

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2020

The Professional Geographer

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“…Participation in higher education does not mirror the demographics of the USA (Adams, Solís, & McKendry, 2013;Monk et al, 2004). In 2007, underrepresented minorities comprised 39% of K-12 public enrollment, 33% of the US college age population, 26% of undergraduate enrollment, and 18% of those earning science and engineering bachelor's degrees.…”

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Exploring youth socio-spatial perceptions of higher education landscapes through sketch maps

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Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Previous research on broadening participation in higher education and Science Technology Engineering and Math has inadequately examined the role of place. This article explores the socio-spatial perceptions of youth of a college campus and changes in perceptions youth experience during their transition from being a university neighbor to becoming part of a university community. This study uses sketch maps and qualitative Geographic Information Systems to document the changing perceptions of 43 youth aged 14 -18 during their participation in a university program. The results suggest that some students started to identify with campus spaces as a university student or employee rather than as a neighbor of the university.

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“…Moreover, what does it matter that sets of individual actors are growing increasingly diverse, in terms of gender, race and ethnicity within the discipline of geography, but less so in fields related to GIScience? (Adams, Solís & McKendry ; Solís & Adams ) What about foreign‐born scholars? (Foote, Monk & Theobald ) How do women and women of color differ in their meaning making processes and in the answers to the questions of the relationship between GIS and geography?…”

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