Ivory Towers Have Glass Ceilings: Institutional Responsibility in Promotion to Full Professor (Navigating Careers in Higher Education)

A must-read for higher education leaders committed to equity, Ivory Towers Have Glass Ceilings examines faculty members' experiences in promotion to full professorship.This volume discusses how structures, practices, processes, and policies pertaining to promotion from associate professor to full professor both presume and reproduce racialized and gendered inequity. Women's teaching and service loads are often quantitatively and qualitatively different from white and some Asian men's experiences, which only serves to reinforce the status quo.This also extends beyond teaching and service to the types of intellectual contributions that are considered important, which often excludes the hands-on, engaged work that underrepresented faculty are more likely to perform.Contributors point out the unwritten rules that serve as hidden hurdles for promotion for women and underrepresented minorities.Additionally, what counts as professionalism is typically in favor of white, cisgender men.Inequiti