Saralyn Mckinnon-Crowley
Biographic Data
| ID | 144874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saralyn Mckinnon-Crowley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saralyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckinnon-Crowley |
| SIGNATURE | MCKINNON-CROWLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5553-1744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Here There Be Ghosts
Our work is an exploration of three women’s post-doctoral encounters both within and outside of academia. We say “outside” because our collective encounters as post-doctoral scholars at major R1 institutions in the United States and Canada impacted not only the work we were able to produce within our roles, but it also began to impact our lives in both large and small ways outside of them. Our storied letter writing as artful inquiry offers an at…
Punking the Academic Machine
This composition foregrounds various conceptual and affective possibilities of punk rock as inquiring artfully. A punk rock stance carries its own implications for methods of inquiring artfully, and we offer a punk drama composition adventure to foreground wild thinking and rebellious doing of inquiry. We develop a punk composition to stimulate a punk rock ethos in the readers and artful inquirers. These ethoses encourage the listeners to live an…
Why Are Working Parents Staying in Student Affairs
Higher education work norms have long been unsustainable in their substantial demands on employees’ time. Student affairs professionals often feel overworked and undercompensated. This qualitative study of 25 working parents in the United States analyzes their orientation toward work and attrition with a particular focus on the 2020–2022 time period. Family concerns shape their commitments to student affairs. Institutions should be more mindful o…
Organizational Trust, Working Parents in Student Affairs, and the Covid-19 Pandemic
How do the actions of higher education leadership impact the trust employees feel in their organization? Using a theoretical framework that suggests that trust is shared, learned, and conditional, we investigate the way the actions of senior leaders and direct supervisors both helped and harmed employees' trust in their organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on interviews with 25 working parents in student affairs, we found that many…
Financial Aid Access During the 2020 Pandemic Period
During the 2020 period of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education delivery changed drastically. Using document analysis and interviews with staff and students, in this article I address how the practice of financial aid changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff reported that these changes created problems with technology and radically increased workloads. Student stories indicate how changes in financial aid practice could exclude low-income st…
Money matters
Higher education is increasingly expensive, and access disparities by race and social class exist. Yet, we lack nuance in the scholarly literature about students’ understandings of how they finance their college education. We examine how class-based differences influence how students finance college education. We draw on concepts from economic sociology and sensemaking to examine how class backgrounds shape students’ meaning-making of finance and…
I Had to Jump through a Lot of Hoops”
In this instrumental case study, we explored the experiences of working mothers in student affairs and how their situated realities are shaped by institutional and professional norms, including commonly understood written and unwritten practices. We conducted interviews and focus groups with 21 mothers working full-time at a research-intensive university in the South. We crafted themes to illustrate how ideal worker norms, inequality regimes, and…
Bridges or Barriers? How Interactions between Individuals and Institutions Condition Community College Transfer
Institutional practices and conditions at community colleges can improve rates of transfer, as can access to transfer student capital. However, we know little about how institutions attempt to build students' transfer capital, or about students' experiences within community colleges as they accumulate transfer capital. In this paper, we examine how students' institutional experiences, particularly their engagement with student supports at communi…
Fighting Gendered Battles
This scholarly personal narrative (Nash 2004) draws on the author's experiences as a woman in a male-dominated gaming community. In such a space, being a woman who plays the game problematizes notions of gender for both the author and for her most-often male opponents. When playing the game, she operates in a liminal space between expert and outsider because of her gender identity. At the same time, her gender troubles her men opponents. She disc…
Fighting Gendered Battles
This scholarly personal narrative (Nash 2004) draws on the author's experiences as a woman in a male-dominated gaming community. In such a space, being a woman who plays the game problematizes notions of gender for both the author and for her most-often male opponents. When playing the game, she operates in a liminal space between expert and outsider because of her gender identity. At the same time, her gender troubles her men opponents. She disc…
Bridges or Barriers? How Interactions between Individuals and Institutions Condition Community College Transfer
Institutional practices and conditions at community colleges can improve rates of transfer, as can access to transfer student capital. However, we know little about how institutions attempt to build students' transfer capital, or about students' experiences within community colleges as they accumulate transfer capital. In this paper, we examine how students' institutional experiences, particularly their engagement with student supports at communi…
I Had to Jump through a Lot of Hoops”
In this instrumental case study, we explored the experiences of working mothers in student affairs and how their situated realities are shaped by institutional and professional norms, including commonly understood written and unwritten practices. We conducted interviews and focus groups with 21 mothers working full-time at a research-intensive university in the South. We crafted themes to illustrate how ideal worker norms, inequality regimes, and…
Organizational Trust, Working Parents in Student Affairs, and the Covid-19 Pandemic
How do the actions of higher education leadership impact the trust employees feel in their organization? Using a theoretical framework that suggests that trust is shared, learned, and conditional, we investigate the way the actions of senior leaders and direct supervisors both helped and harmed employees' trust in their organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on interviews with 25 working parents in student affairs, we found that many…
Fighting Gendered Battles
This scholarly personal narrative (Nash 2004) draws on the author's experiences as a woman in a male-dominated gaming community. In such a space, being a woman who plays the game problematizes notions of gender for both the author and for her most-often male opponents. When playing the game, she operates in a liminal space between expert and outsider because of her gender identity. At the same time, her gender troubles her men opponents. She disc…
I Had to Jump through a Lot of Hoops”
In this instrumental case study, we explored the experiences of working mothers in student affairs and how their situated realities are shaped by institutional and professional norms, including commonly understood written and unwritten practices. We conducted interviews and focus groups with 21 mothers working full-time at a research-intensive university in the South. We crafted themes to illustrate how ideal worker norms, inequality regimes, and…
Bridges or Barriers? How Interactions between Individuals and Institutions Condition Community College Transfer
Institutional practices and conditions at community colleges can improve rates of transfer, as can access to transfer student capital. However, we know little about how institutions attempt to build students' transfer capital, or about students' experiences within community colleges as they accumulate transfer capital. In this paper, we examine how students' institutional experiences, particularly their engagement with student supports at communi…
Financial Aid Access During the 2020 Pandemic Period
During the 2020 period of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education delivery changed drastically. Using document analysis and interviews with staff and students, in this article I address how the practice of financial aid changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff reported that these changes created problems with technology and radically increased workloads. Student stories indicate how changes in financial aid practice could exclude low-income st…
Money matters
Higher education is increasingly expensive, and access disparities by race and social class exist. Yet, we lack nuance in the scholarly literature about students’ understandings of how they finance their college education. We examine how class-based differences influence how students finance college education. We draw on concepts from economic sociology and sensemaking to examine how class backgrounds shape students’ meaning-making of finance and…
Organizational Trust, Working Parents in Student Affairs, and the Covid-19 Pandemic
How do the actions of higher education leadership impact the trust employees feel in their organization? Using a theoretical framework that suggests that trust is shared, learned, and conditional, we investigate the way the actions of senior leaders and direct supervisors both helped and harmed employees' trust in their organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on interviews with 25 working parents in student affairs, we found that many…
Why Are Working Parents Staying in Student Affairs
Higher education work norms have long been unsustainable in their substantial demands on employees’ time. Student affairs professionals often feel overworked and undercompensated. This qualitative study of 25 working parents in the United States analyzes their orientation toward work and attrition with a particular focus on the 2020–2022 time period. Family concerns shape their commitments to student affairs. Institutions should be more mindful o…
Here There Be Ghosts
Our work is an exploration of three women’s post-doctoral encounters both within and outside of academia. We say “outside” because our collective encounters as post-doctoral scholars at major R1 institutions in the United States and Canada impacted not only the work we were able to produce within our roles, but it also began to impact our lives in both large and small ways outside of them. Our storied letter writing as artful inquiry offers an at…
Punking the Academic Machine
This composition foregrounds various conceptual and affective possibilities of punk rock as inquiring artfully. A punk rock stance carries its own implications for methods of inquiring artfully, and we offer a punk drama composition adventure to foreground wild thinking and rebellious doing of inquiry. We develop a punk composition to stimulate a punk rock ethos in the readers and artful inquirers. These ethoses encourage the listeners to live an…
Higher education (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Student affairs (3 works)