Answering the Call (for Proposals): Moving Toward Justice in Postsecondary Philanthropy

McCambly, Heather; Mackevicius, Claire; Villanosa, Krystal

doi:10.1080/00091383.2022.2078151

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“…Recent studies on the role of grantmakers in the racialized arrangement of institutions of higher education have demonstrated that community colleges, and in particular minority-serving community colleges, are routinely underfunded or funded under circumstances of enhanced surveillance and limited self-determination compared to their research-university counterparts (see, e.g., Bell & Gándara, 2021; Gándara & Rutherford, 2020; McCambly & Colyvas, 2022 McCambly et al, 2022; Miller & Morphew, 2017). Taking a longitudinal view, when funders—the state or otherwise—prioritize racial equity in their policy paradigms, there are often changes in funding streams that challenge the status quo.…”

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“…Categorizing some investments as safe and others as risky is a concerning practice with deeply raced implications within the context of public programs expressly designed, at least in part, to remediate or remedy historical harm, such as Title V. Worse yet, this is not an unusual framing. Rather, this cognitive frame around risk pervades grantmaking to U.S. higher education (McCambly et al, 2022) as well as conversations related to HSIs. Take, for example, the recent opinion piece that put forward the idea of “super HSIs” (Wilcox, 2022), essentially describing “super” as those approximating whiteness.…”

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Community Colleges as Racialized Organizations: Outlining Opportunities for Equity

McCambly

Aguilar-Smith

Felix

et al. 2023

Community College Review

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Purpose: The purpose of this article is to use Victor Ray’s theory of racialized organizations (TRO), and multiple applied exemplars, as a framework and call to action for community college researchers and policymakers. In doing so, we provide a meso-level analytic view on how and why the most accessible postsecondary pathway for minoritized students is also the most chronically under-resourced sector of higher education in the United States. Argument: Understanding community colleges as a type of racialized organization opposes traditional meritocratic perspectives that view these institutions as culturally neutral spaces, guided by open access and unrestricted credential choice. Decades of research suggest that egalitarian principles attached to community colleges do not necessarily translate into equitable student experiences and outcomes. Responses to these inequitable outcomes, however, primarily assign blame to individual dispositions. Without deep consideration of contextual conditions that shape organizational policies and practices, outcome disparities are viewed as a condition of cultural deficits rather than structured impotence. Conclusions: This paper advances our collective attunement, as community college scholars, to organizational arrangements that perpetuate and weaken white supremacy. In short, we use a racialized organizational lens to think in new ways about how community colleges, as an institutional type, are often as marginalized as the students they serve.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Exemplar 2: Racialization Of Hsis and Impact On Hispanic-ser...mentioning

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Community Colleges as Racialized Organizations: Outlining Opportunities for Equity

McCambly

Aguilar-Smith

Felix

et al. 2023

Community College Review

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Racialized Patterns in the Distribution of Congressional Pork: Implications for Postsecondary Equity and Organizational Transformation

McCambly,

Aguilar-Smith

2024

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Troubled by the inequities in competitive grantmaking, we use critical quantitative methods to analyze the FY2023 federal academic earmarks as a potential mechanism for racialized change work. Specifically, we ask: To what extent does Congress distribute academic earmarks in ways that reinforce or weaken the racialized stratification of resources across organizations in the field? Accordingly, we identify distribution patterns of academic earmarks, considering the allocation of dollars and types of earmarks (i.e., general capacity-building versus specialized grants) across colleges and universities, between White-serving institutions and minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and among MSIs. Based on our analysis, Congress favored a racially reproductive funding portfolio, driven by smaller and more restrictive allocations, not fewer earmarks. However, the distribution of earmarks among MSIs defied normed expectations, as Congress did not privilege whiter, more prestigious MSIs, signaling the potential of pork-barrel politics for racially reparative work.

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Answering the Call (for Proposals): Moving Toward Justice in Postsecondary Philanthropy

Cited by 2 publications

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Community Colleges as Racialized Organizations: Outlining Opportunities for Equity

Community Colleges as Racialized Organizations: Outlining Opportunities for Equity

Racialized Patterns in the Distribution of Congressional Pork: Implications for Postsecondary Equity and Organizational Transformation

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