Race, Women of Color, and the State University System: Critical Reflections - Paperback

by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw (Editor), Amarilis Hidalgo-De-Jesús (Editor)

This book focuses on challenges women of color experienced while teaching or pursuing administrative duties within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Contributors provide academic tools and strategies to navigate the academy successfully by identifying challenges unique to the state system that may be generally applicable.

Author Biography

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw is an associate professor at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. As a former professor of English education in the Department of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, she taught literature and composition courses and coordinated the Secondary English program. Before then she taught English language arts at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Amarilis Hidalgo-de Jesús is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She teaches language, culture, and literature classes in English and Spanish. She previously taught languages at Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman University).