This is not a checklist: Higher education and student affairs<i>competencies</i>, neoliberal protocol, and poetics

Eaton, Paul William; Smithers, Laura E.

doi:10.1080/00131857.2019.1679624

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“…This is a fundamental shift in research methodology from an extractive or reductive logic to thinking with what queer life makes possible, the relations, connections, and future possibilities. This is a shift from asking “what does this mean?” to “what does this do?” and “how do they (or can they) function?” This highlights paths of problematization over solutions to be found (Eaton & Smithers, 2020; Smithers, 2020a, 2020b; Springgay & Truman, 2018). Beginning in the middle, beyond the binary, and with becoming, we can imagine and create the futures we want to see.…”

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“…and "how do they (or can they) function?" This highlights paths of problematization over solutions to be found (Eaton & Smithers, 2020;Smithers, 2020aSmithers, , 2020bSpringgay & Truman, 2018). Beginning in the middle, beyond the binary, and with becoming, we can imagine and create the futures we want to see.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Building from this, in what follows we turn to our participants, who offer recommendations for practice and research throughout their narratives. We highlight these as a way of simultaneously being-with the experiences of students and their definitions of success, as well as becoming with the potential and possibilities offered in definitions of success that elide and elude capture (Eaton & Smithers, 2020; Smithers, 2020a, 2020b).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The nexus of trans collegians’ pronouns and name practices navigating campus space(s): Beyond the binary.

Flint¹,

Kilgo²,

Emslie³

et al. 2023

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

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The purpose of our study is to explore the nexus between trans students' experiences with pronoun usage and naming practices through campus interactions and navigations of campus. Grounded in a Deleuzian conception of becoming, our analysis explores the multiple and simultaneous ways that pronoun use effects trans student's experiences on campus. As a theoretical orientation, becoming centers the multiplicitous and entangled narratives, experiences, and negotiations of pronoun usage and naming practices with the trans students in our studies, disrupting the dominant culture. Our study's findings contribute to the literature on trans collegians' experiences navigating genderist campus environments, as well as theoretical and methodological considerations for centering trans, nonbinary, and agender student narratives. Specifically, our analysis of student narratives emphasized the ways in which students simultaneously experience isolation and affirmation, the ways in which policies designed to affirm and support trans students could also work to silence them, as well as how students practiced resilience and built relationships within these contexts.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The nexus of trans collegians’ pronouns and name practices navigating campus space(s): Beyond the binary.

Flint¹,

Kilgo²,

Emslie³

et al. 2023

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

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“…This is especially poignant for student affairs professionals. Although the academic realm of universities has grappled with neoliberalism for decades (e.g., Busch, 2014;The Care Collective, 2020;Collective, 2017;Davies, 2020;Giroux, 2013;Jameson, 2019;Kezar et al, 2019;Mountz et al, 2015;Petersen & Davies, 2010;Prout et al, 2021;Slaughter & Leslie, 1999;Slaughter & Rhoades, 2004;Smyth, 2017;Waddington, 2021), student affairs professionals have scarcely, but meaningfully, troubled the idea of neoliberalism (e.g., Bylsma, 2015;Cairo & Cabal, 2021;Eaton & Smithers, 2020;Malaney, 2006;Pitcher, 2015). However, I posit that many student affairs staff have affectively experienced normalized suffering, in part, due to neoliberal norms.…”

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My High Horse Is Dying: Agitating Internalized Neoliberalism in Higher Education With(Out) Compassion

Killam

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This critical, poststructural autoethnography agitates internalized neoliberalism in the higher education context. Provocative and experimental, it is intended to trouble neoliberal norms that shape professional selves and higher-education-the-collective, while also interweaving what it means to be/come a scholar. Nonlinear flares, manifested in theorization, images, vignettes, checklists, and poetry illuminate the subtleties of inescapable neoliberalism at individual and systemic levels. Offering compassion as a throughline of inquiry, I wonder if/how it is possible for compassion to disrupt neoliberalism through the precarity of individual and systemic enaction. As higher education goes on, and uncertain institutions contemplate staff/faculty retention, along with the telos of college education, how do we come to terms with neoliberalism’s stronghold that stifles emancipating onto-epistemic possibilities? Can/does compassion create breeches for new possibilities?

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The Production of Alter-Competence: Wonder in Graduate Preparation Program Coursework

Smithers

2022

Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice

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This is not a checklist: Higher education and student affairscompetencies, neoliberal protocol, and poetics

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

The nexus of trans collegians’ pronouns and name practices navigating campus space(s): Beyond the binary.

The nexus of trans collegians’ pronouns and name practices navigating campus space(s): Beyond the binary.

My High Horse Is Dying: Agitating Internalized Neoliberalism in Higher Education With(Out) Compassion

The Production of Alter-Competence: Wonder in Graduate Preparation Program Coursework

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