DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Title

If They're So Smart, What am I Doing in Front of the Classroom? A Latina's Journey for Respect

Authors

Sandra L. Foster, Graduate Student, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Arizona State University

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

October 2001

This session focuses on one graduate teaching assistant's experience with student group resistance. It sheds light on one of the many possible challenges faculty of color may experience in higher education when teaching courses where the ethnic makeup of students is predominantly white.