In the Academy, But Not at the Table: Voices of Marginalized Faculty on the Tenure Track
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What happens when faculty are invited into the academy but denied a seat at the table?
In the Academy, But Not at the Table brings together the voices of marginalized faculty navigating the tenure track, exposing how institutions celebrate diversity while often withholding power, protection, belonging, and recognition.
This co-edited volume documents the lived experiences, structural barriers, institutional contradictions, and resistant knowledge of marginalized faculty in higher education. It is a book for scholars, graduate students, department chairs, deans, provosts, faculty developers, and anyone committed to building universities where representation is not mistaken for justice.
BRING NOT AT THE TABLE TO YOUR CAMPUS
The academy has opened its doors. But who gets to belong, speak, lead, and stay?
Who is seated at the table, who is expected to serve it, and who is still waiting outside the room?
Companion Resources for Faculty, Chairs, Deans, and Reading Groups
Practical companion resources for faculty, chairs, deans, reading groups, graduate programs, and campus leaders working toward more humane academic cultures.
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NOT AT THE TABLE BUNDLE
A comprehensive collection of resources to support reflection, dialogue, and institutional change across your campus.
A comprehensive resource bundle for colleges, universities, faculty affairs offices, centers for teaching and learning, DEI committees, graduate programs, and leadership teams using In the Academy, But Not at the Table as a catalyst for campus dialogue and institutional change. The bundle includes the Tenure Track Reflection Workbook, Book Study and Discussion Guide, Department Chair Discussion Toolkit, campus conversation prompts, sample reading group agendas, facilitation activities, and action-planning tools designed to support meaningful engagement across departments, programs, and leadership spaces.
A guided reflection workbook for tenure-track faculty navigating questions of belonging, voice, identity, invisible labor, mentoring, institutional culture, and professional survival. Designed as an entry-point companion resource to In the Academy, But Not at the Table, this workbook helps faculty name what they are experiencing, reflect on their institutional context, and begin translating personal insight into clarity, agency, and action.
A practical toolkit for department chairs, program directors, faculty leaders, and academic administrators who want to use In the Academy, But Not at the Table to examine departmental culture, mentoring practices, tenure-track support, workload equity, and faculty belonging. This toolkit helps leaders facilitate honest conversations while identifying concrete steps toward more humane, transparent, and accountable academic environments.
A structured discussion guide for readers, faculty groups, graduate seminars, book clubs, and campus communities engaging In the Academy, But Not at the Table. This resource includes chapter-based prompts, reflection questions, discussion activities, and facilitation guidance to help groups move beyond conversation toward deeper understanding, collective meaning-making, and institutional awareness.
Committed to Institutional Change
The book opens the conversation. The work begins when campuses decide to act.
Nicholas Hartlep & Associates helps faculty, departments, colleges, and higher education leaders translate the themes of In the Academy, But Not at the Table into concrete practices: stronger mentoring, more humane tenure systems, better recognition of invisible labor, and more accountable faculty-support structures.
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