Understanding queer faculty of color’s time and values
Steven Feldman, Christen Priddie · To improve the academy · 2025
Literature in higher education highlights how queer faculty of color are overworked and culturally taxed in the academy. Queer faculty of color often are tasked with using their time in ways that do not always benefit them professionally, thereby leaving them more likely to leave their institution. Using the College + University Teaching Environment framework, this study uses a large-scale, multi-institution quantitative dataset to explore how queer faculty of color spend their time in the academy as well as how time spent relates to personal and institutional values. Results show that queer faculty of color regardless of tenure status spend much of their time with tenure-related activities (i.e., teaching, research, service). Additionally, queer faculty of color not on the tenure track engaged more in external professional activities compared to their tenured/tenure-track counterparts. Results also revealed that alignment between time spent on various activities and personal values differed significantly based on tenure status, highlighting structural differences in queer faculty of color’s experiences.