African American Counselor Educators' Job Satisfaction and Perceptions of Departmental Racial Climate
✍ Scribed by Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy; Carla Addison-Bradley
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 87 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-0035
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✦ Synopsis
Results indicated that African American counselor educators' perceptions of departmental racial climate predicted their level of job satisfaction. However, African American counselor educators' job satisfaction was not related to their academic rank and tenure status. Implications for counselor education and future research are discussed.
Faculty-of-color experience the work environment of college campuses very differently from nonminority or White faculty (Johnsrud & Des Jarlais, 1994;Turner & Myers, 2000). This difference stems from the legacy of racial discrimination in predominately White higher education environments, which have historically served the interests and experiences of White male faculty (Aguirre, 2000). Racial discrimination against faculty-of-color may include restricted opportunities, differential assignment of tasks, increased service activities, restricted opportunities for leadership roles, social isolation, and the devaluation of research focusing on women and ethnic minorities (Harvey & Scott-James, 1985;Turner & Myers, 2000). In a national study that used survey data from 33,986 university faculty respondents, Astin, Antonio, Cress, and Astin (1997) found that faculty-of-color were twice as likely as White faculty to identify subtle racial discrimination as a source of stress.