Ideal for Whom? A Cultural Analysis of Ideal Worker Norms in Higher Education and Student Affairs Graduate Programs. Issue 176 (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sallee, Margaret W.
• Editors: Wolf‐Wendel, Lisa; Ward, Kelly; Kulp, Amanda M.
• Is Part Of: New directions for higher education. Volume 2016:Issue 176(2016)
• Page Start: 53
• Page End: 67
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: College teachers -- United States -- Periodicals; College teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Finance -- Periodicals; 378.120973
• DOI: 10.1002/he.20209
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0271-0560

Abstract

Abstract : This chapter explores the consequences of ideal worker norms for graduate student‐parents in higher education and student affairs programs. Using Schein's (2004) levels of culture as a conceptual lens, this chapter considers the ways that programmatic structures and interactions with faculty and peers reflect and reproduce a culture across graduate programs that privileges the norm of the always‐working and engaged student, thereby creating barriers to full participation for students with children.