What's the story here? The effect of volatility on university leader sensemaking of undocumented student access

Parrish, Dan; C, C

doi:10.5455/ejms/30540/2019

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“…Research regarding attitudes toward undocumented students' pursuit of higher education has considered a variety of groups within the academy. Studies on this topic have considered the opinions of students (Garibay et al, 2016;Herrera et al, 2013), institutional leaders (Nienhusser, 2014;Parrish, 2015), staff (Cadenas et al, 2018;Cisneros & Cadenas, 2017;Nienhusser, 2018), and faculty (Salas, 2012). However, this body of work has overlooked postdoctoral scholars.…”

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How Postdocs Identifying as White U.S. Citizens Can Support Undocumented Students

Jach

Gupta

2023

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Research on attitudes within higher education toward undocumented students has overlooked the views of postdoctoral scholars (postdocs). With the number of postdocs in the United States on the rise, this highly trained group matters for future leadership inside and outside of higher education. Since previous research has shown that individuals of minoritized races/ethnicities and non-U.S. citizens exhibit greater support for undocumented students (Garibay et al., 2016; Jach & Gloeckner, 2020), this study conducted individual interviews with 10 postdocs who identified as White U.S. citizens. Findings indicated postdocs with a personal or professional connection to undocumented students exhibited greater levels of support toward undocumented students. Those lacking these connections exhibited greater levels of White immunity (Cabrera, 2017) and what this study terms citizenship immunity. Postdocs also expressed a need for adult education to better support undocumented students yet articulated possible strategies for engaging in allyship, suggesting postdocs have the power to counteract negative rhetoric and work toward a more inclusive policy for undocumented students.

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How Postdocs Identifying as White U.S. Citizens Can Support Undocumented Students

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2023

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“…In a phenomenological study examining advocacy for undocumented students, the authors profiled how two administrators constructed their support for undocumented students (Crawford & Arnold, 2016). Studies have also examined the opinions of higher education leaders in a variety of ways: a survey of leaders from institutions in multiple states (Feranchak, 2007), a qualitative study of 25 community college administrators (Jauregui & Slate, 2009), and opinions of religious leaders at Catholic institutions (Parrish, 2015). Ishiwata and Muñoz (2018) also considered the views of faculty members and supports for undocumented students within their respective institutions.…”

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“…Literature has also examined the opinions of a variety of groups found within the academy and their views on immigration as well as their views of undocumented students' pursuit of higher education. This research has considered the opinions of undergraduate students (Garibay et al, 2016;Herrera et al, 2013), as well as employees comprising institutions of higher education, including: campus leaders (Feranchak, 2007;Parrish, 2015), staff (Cadenas et al, 2016;Cisneros & Cadenas, 2017;Nienhusser, 2018), community college leaders (Nienhusser, 2014), and faculty members (Ishiwata & Muñoz, 2018;Salas, 2012). There is a gap in the literature when it comes to considering the opinions of postdoctoral fellows regarding immigration.…”

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Attributes Associated with Postdoctoral Fellows and Views of Immigration: A Preliminary Analysis Using the General Social Survey

Jach

Gloeckner

2020

Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis

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While research on supporting undocumented immigrants and undocumented students within higher education has examined the opinions of students, faculty, and staff, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to postdoctoral fellows. This study used data from the 2014 General Social Survey (Smith et al., 2018) to examine whether respondents' attributes, including holding a possible postdoctoral position, predicted views of "illegal" immigration, and whether immigrants should have the same education as Americans. Findings suggest that a combination of respondents' attributes predicted these views. Results also suggest that the odds of being more supportive of undocumented immigrants were higher for minorities and for non-U.S. citizens. In addition, being a non-U.S. citizen and having a graduate degree each increased the odds that respondents would support immigrant education. This study contributes to the literature on understanding attitudes toward immigration by conducting a preliminary analysis on the views of an overlooked group within the academy: postdoctoral fellows.

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“…Research has also EJMS 25,2 examined the impact of volatility on sensemaking itself. Parrish (2019) found that high environmental volatility can lead to restricted communication, which results in the reduction of requisite variety. This restriction is precisely the wrong reaction, since volatile situations require the extraction of a broad range of social cues.…”

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The collapse of sensemaking at Yarnell Hill: the effects of endogenous ecological chaos on enactment

Parrish

Clark

Holloway

2020

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Purpose Since Weick’s (1993) seminal Mann Gulch paper articulated a collapse of sensemaking, scholars have repeatedly investigated sensemaking downstream of enactment. Motivated by another wildland firefighting tragedy, the tragic loss of 19 firefighters in Arizona in 2013, this study aims to look at enactment itself and reveals that the endogenous creation and re-creation of the wildland fire caused a fatal feedback loop of “trigger traps” leading to perpetual enactment that short-circuited sensemaking. Wildland fires can have unpredictable consequences, which triggers in individual sensemakers a fatal and continuous return to the beginning of the sensemaking process. Design/methodology/approach This paper’s approach is a case study based on a textual analysis of sources investigating the 2013 Yarnell Hill fire. The authors also carefully compared the Yarnell Hill and Mann Gulch disasters in search of breakdowns in sensemaking that could help us understand why we continue to lose firefighters in the line of duty. Findings The simultaneously volatile and complex environment at Yarnell illustrates sensemaking antecedents to the study of enactment. The findings suggest ways that organizations – those fighting wildfire or those fighting a global pandemic – can avoid getting trapped in the early stages of enactment and can retain resilience in their sensemaking. Originality/value This paper introduces the concept of “trigger traps” to help explain the fatal feedback loop of repeated environmental triggers in the early stages of sensemaking in volatile environments.

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What's the story here? The effect of volatility on university leader sensemaking of undocumented student access

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

How Postdocs Identifying as White U.S. Citizens Can Support Undocumented Students

How Postdocs Identifying as White U.S. Citizens Can Support Undocumented Students

Attributes Associated with Postdoctoral Fellows and Views of Immigration: A Preliminary Analysis Using the General Social Survey

The collapse of sensemaking at Yarnell Hill: the effects of endogenous ecological chaos on enactment

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