Our faculty hiring committee is supposed to prioritize Indigenous and decolonial scholarship, but the senior professors keep saying the 'qualified' candidates don't fit traditional academic criteria, while the junior faculty argue that those criteria are exactly what we're supposed to be dismantling. We're stuck because we all want to transform the department, but we can't agree on whether change means working within existing standards or completely rejecting them.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group is discovering that institutional transformation requires letting go of the very metrics that have defined competence and value.
“Where Are You with Postcolonial identity and decolonization?”
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