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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

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204: Beyond the Usual Suspects: Finding and Building Personally Meaningful Careers at HBCUs (13873)

Friday, August 9, 2024
17:30 – 19:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Swissotel: Monte Rosa
Session Number: 204
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/arKYxv
Almost all business schools (99%, 481/483) in the United States (U.S.) accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) that award doctoral degrees are classified as primarily white institutions (PWIs). Consequently, most management scholars in the U.S. learn about the three pillars of academic careers (i.e., research, teaching, and service) from a PWI viewpoint. While valuable, this perspective does not adequately represent the varied and very rewarding career paths available to management scholars in minority-focused institutions, such as the over 94 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the U.S. Accordingly, the goal of this professional development workshop (PDW) is to shine a light on career opportunities available to management scholars in HBCUs and other minority-focused institutions. Participants will hear from and engage in discussion with a diverse panel of management scholars about building successful and fulfilling academic careers at HBCUs. Topics of discussion include a better understanding of the vision and mission of HBCUs, differences in student populations between PWIs and HBCUs and how they impact teaching, and how HBCUs offer unique possibilities to make societal impacts through community engagement. By highlighting this oft-overlooked scholarly path, our PDW is valuable not only for future management scholars but also for junior faculty and perhaps even seasoned scholars who wish to develop their careers outside the dominant research-intensive (i.e., R1) paradigm promulgated by PWIs.