Chronicle of Higher Education, Stop Ignoring Microaggressions Against Your Staff:
Three ways that professors and administrators, intentionally or not, put staff ‘in their place.’
“You don’t behave enough like staff,” I was told derisively by the tenured professor who was then my supervisor. Despite my Ph.D., my years of experience at various levels of higher education, and my long list of successes as a faculty developer, this supervisor insisted on pointing out my place within the academic hierarchy. I sat there, in silence, swallowing my anger and shame. ...
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