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Feminist advising and mentoring can empower students.
Feminist teaching methods are transforming university classroom education. Too often they stop at the classroom door, not reaching the other places where students spend most of their lives.
"I can create a collaborative class, but as soon as you come in for advising you have to do it my way. I have all the power," Dr. Elizabeth Miller said at the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) in Denver in April. She's associate professor of family and child studies and directs teaching assistant training and development at Northern Illinois University.
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She's found lots of literature on feminist pedagogy but almost none on feminist advising. Traditional models of advising undergraduate and graduate students violate almost every feminist principle: recognize power imbalances, give voice, empower the marginalized, and act for social change.
To be a feminist advisor, Miller said, "Look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite."
Honor student voices
Power between faculty and students is inherently unequal. That socially constructed reality is so ingrained that instead of stating and exploring it, we assume and reinforce it. She described how to be a feminist advisor and mentor.
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