Authored & Edited by Dr. Penny A. Pasque:

Advancing Culturally Responsive Research and Researchers: Qualitative, Quantitative & Mixed Methods (Pasque & alexander, Eds.) 

This text encourages readers to design and engage in methodologies and methods that place cultural relevancy at the center of inquiry, highlighting the need to uplift voices and needs of people who have been historically minoritized in the environments that we engage in as part of knowledge construction. It makes accessible the material shared at the Advanced Methods Institute, a virtual conference that engaged almost 1000 faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students from 5 different countries in engaging sessions designed around the theme, Advancing Culturally Responsive Research and Researchers. For more on each author the institute and a discount on the book – visit our QualLab / EHE website. 

Empowering Women in Higher Education & Student Affairs (Pasque & Nicholson, Eds.) 

This text provides a rich history of women administrators in higher education and provides insight to how the feminist movement aided in where we are today. It offers practical wisdom for student affairs practitioners while also highlighting ways that theoretical frameworks, research questions, methodological approaches, policies, and procedures remain political and have direct implications on people’s daily lives. My / Penny’s mom always liked the narrative chapters provided in each section. Cover photo / artwork is by chapter author Flo Guido. 

Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education (De Welde & Stepnick (Eds.); Pasque, foreword)

This book is a “tool kit” for advancing greater gender equality and equity in higher education. It presents the latest research on issues of concern to them, and to anyone interested in a more equitable academy. It documents the challenging, sometimes hostile experiences of women academics through feminist analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, including narratives from women of different races and ethnicities across disciplines, ranks, and university types. (Pasque foreword). 

Transforming Understandings of Diversity in Higher Education: Demography, Democracy, and Discourse (Pasque, Ortega, Burkhardt & Ting, Eds.)

A distinguished group of diversity scholars explore the latest discourse on diversity and how it is reflected in research and practice. The chapters trace how the discourse on diversity is newly shaped after many of the 20th century concepts of race, ethnicity, gender and class have lost authority. Of interest to anyone who is following the debates about diversity issues on our campuses, the book also offers a wonderful introduction to graduate students entering a discipline where critically important ideas are still very much alive for discussion. 

Engaged Research and Practice: Higher Education and the Pursuit of the Public Good  (Overton, Pasque, Burkhardt, Eds.)

Engaged, actionable, or participatory research and scholarship attempts to tackle the identified issues of our communities and society. This handbook offers important insights and tangible examples of how higher education leaders may work directly with communities and in policy settings to understand the deeper meanings often lost in conversations about educational opportunity. Each chapter addresses the ways in which faculty, community and administrative leaders may connect research and practice through unique research projects. 

Qualitative Inquiry in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research (Pasque & Lechuga, Eds.)

This text provides readers with the theoretical foundations and innovative perspectives for undertaking qualitative research to influence policy and practice discussions. Well-known chapter authors discuss innovative strategies for investigating complex problems, helping readers understand how research can consider the culture of the institution, administrative hierarchy, students, faculty, and external constituencies. 

Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Foundations and Futures (Cannella, Pérez, & Pasque, Eds.)

Critical approaches to qualitative research have made a significant impact on research practice over the past decade. This comprehensive volume of contemporary, original articles places this trend in its historical context, describes the current landscape of critical work, and considers the future of this turn. This book describes “critical qualitative” as including counter-colonial, decolonial, new materialism, feminist methodologies and beyond. Chapter authors include Norm Denzin, Yvonna Lincoln, Lucy Bailey, Jenny Ritchie, Maggie MacLure, Kuntz, Mark Nagasawa, Mirka Koro, Jasmine Ulmer, Harry Torrance, Michelle Salazar Pérez, etc. 

Qualitative Inquiry for Equity in Higher Education: Methodological Innovations, Implications, and Interventions (Pasque, Carducci, Kuntz & Gildersleeve)

Beginning with the premise that equity is of paramount concern in the study of higher education, this text explores the promise and pitfalls of qualitative inquiry with respect to addressing issues of in/equity and fostering social change at micro, meso, and macro levels. Building upon contemporary qualitative higher education scholarship, the authors advance a critique of the reductive and generic conceptions of qualitative research that dominate the field and call upon scholars to examine the transformative potential embedded within critical qualitative inquiry. 

American Higher Education, Leadership, and Policy: Critical Issues and the Public Good  (Pasque)

In this critical look at contemporary higher education, Pasque explores what “higher education for the public good” (HEPG) means to different constituencies – including legislators, university presidents, community partners, faculty, graduate students, and beyond. She found that people may say the same thing, but often mean very different things. Further, if perspectives shared did not follow those of policy makers, then no matter one’s identity (i.e.,  racially minoritized community partners, women, graduate students, white male full professors), the perspectives were not furthered in the conversations and were absent in policy documents.  Pasque argues that if a more thorough understanding of leaders’ various perspectives is not offered, then the dominant perspectives within academic discourse will continue to perpetuate the current ideas of higher education’s relationship with society.  This has the potential to reify current systems  as opposed to make needed policy change around HEPG, including a focus on equity and inclusion. 

Critical Issues in Higher Education for the Public Good: Qualitative, Quantitative, & Historical Research Perspectives (Pasque, Bowman, & Martinez, Eds.)

This edited text offers new evidence and insights into the complexities of higher education and the public good. This unique collection of award winning authors discusses what is needed in order to actualize higher education for the public good, where “higher education” and “the public” are inclusive of multiple constituencies. Issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, urban environments, and systemic oppression are addressed, along with teaching and learning, study abroad, affirmative action and community-university engagement. This book features chapters by “Rising Scholars” as selected by the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, in collaboration with the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). 

Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity and Learning Communities (Galura, Pasque, Schoem, & Howard, Eds.)

This text provides theoretical overviews of and rationales for the reoccurring themes such as diversity, social justice, learning communities, leadership, service-learning, civic engagement/education, community-based teaching, and innovative leadership. The heart of the book is a comprehensive overview and analysis of the University of Michigan’s Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP)—in particular its infrastructure, history, and culture.

Taking Responsibility: A Call for Higher Education’s Engagement in a Society of Complex Global Challenges (Pasque, Hendricks, & Bowman, Eds.)

The goal of this monograph is to call on higher education leaders to take responsibility to do more—to take risks, deconstruct current worldviews, disseminate information, change policies, and address strategies to strengthen the relationships between higher education and society. As the authors clearly state, in the current socio-political and cultural climate, college and universities must take a more active role toward creating an equitable and just society. This was a collaborative effort by the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, Wingspread Foundation, and chapter authors. 

Contributed chapters in:

Faculty Identities and the Challenge of Diversity: Reflections on Teaching in Higher Education 

This book focuses on understanding the experiences of faculty members of various races/ethnicities and genders and their classroom encounters with students in the United States. It illustrates some of the dynamics for faculty members facing the challenges and opportunities the diversity presents.

Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education & Student Affairs 

This book is concerned with naming the material consequences of whiteness in the lives of People of Color on college and university campuses in the United States. Part one of the book introduces theoretical ideas and concepts administrators, scholars, and activists might use to interrogate how whiteness functions on campus. Part two of the book explores practical considerations for how whiteness functions across campus spaces, including student leadership programs, fraternity and sorority life, faculty tenure and promotion, LGBTQ support services, and so forth. 

Intersectionality in Educational Research

The purpose of this work is to advance understanding of intersectional theory and its application to research in education. The book illustrates how intersectional theory can be used in both quantitative and qualitative education research on college student access and success, faculty satisfaction and professional development, and K-12 educational issues such as high school dropouts and bullying. 

Modeling Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender 

Following a comprehensive review of the literature, this book presents chapters written by scholars who share in-depth descriptions of their cross-gender and/or cross-race/ethnicity mentoring relationships. Each article is co-authored by mentors who are established senior scholars and their former protégés with whom they have continuing collegial relationships. Their descriptions provide rich insights into the importance of these relationships, and for developing the academic pipeline for women scholars and scholars of color. 

The Obama Administration and Educational Reform 

Arguably, since the day he was elected, President Barack Obama met great anticipation from scores of Americans regarding the forward course our nation desired economically, socially, and educationally. The promise of progress and social mobility that millions of U.S. families hope to attain can be unlocked through the educational enterprise. Unfortunately, while the United States educates all children, all children do not receive the same education. Hence, prospects for a better future for many are thwarted from the onset given the inequities in P-12 education. 

Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry: Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research 

This volume examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qualitative approaches to the study of educational contexts, issues, and phenomena. It presents a collection of innovative and intellectually stimulating chapters which illustrate the potential for disruptive qualitative research perspectives to advance social justice aims omnipresent in educational policy and practice dialogues. 

Research, Actionable Knowledge, and Social Change 

A professional text written for social science researchers and practitioners, this book provides strategies and frameworks for using social science research to engage in critical social and educational problem solving. The aim of the text is to encourage a new generation of research-based partnerships reforms that promote equity and access for underserved populations. 

Reflection in Action: A Guidebook for Faculty and Student Affairs Professionals 

This guidebook aims to stimulate student affairs professionals and higher education faculty alike to adopt new approaches when discussing sensitive or controversial topics with their students. It provides teachers and professionals with a critical social understanding of social justice, social agency, reflection, and actionable knowledge to develop new and effective skills, practice them in safe spaces, and apply them in the field. 

Women of Color in Higher Education

This volume focuses on African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian-Pacific American women whose increased presence in senior level administrative and academic positions in higher education is transforming the political climate to be more inclusive of women of color. Topics include trends and issues, leadership styles/characteristics, tenure and promotion, mentoring/social networks, and challenges and opportunities. 

Handbook of Engaged Scholarship: Community-Campus Partnerships 

In this two-volume collection, contributors capture the rich diversity of institutions and partnerships that characterize the contemporary landscape and the future of engaged scholarship. Volume One addresses such issues as the application of engaged scholarship across types of colleges and universities and the current state of the movement. Volume Two contains essays on such topics as current typologies, measuring effectiveness and accreditation, community-campus partnership development, national organizational models, and the future landscape. 

Managing Diversity: (Re)visioning Equity on College Campuses 

Note: this text is out of print but may be purchased from a used bookseller here. This book brings together scholars who explore the evolving meanings of diversity and how these meanings present new challenges and considerations for collegiate leadership, management, and practice. The book offers empirical, scholarly, and personal space to interrogate the seemingly elusive but compelling challenges postsecondary institutions face in managing diversity. 

Maybe I should?… Case Studies on Ethics in Student Affairs 

Note: this text is out of print but may be purchased from a used bookseller here. This text is designed to help graduate students and new to midlevel student affairs professionals heighten their knowledge of sensitivities to professional ethics in practice. Readers are provided with strategies for analyzing cases as well as a number of targeted cases for consideration and analysis. Additionally, resources and suggestions are offered to instructors and facilitators who seek to incorporate professional ethics and case study analysis into formal educational or staff development activities in student affairs. 

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