Miller, C., & Castaneda, D., & Aleman, M. (2022, August), Creating Sanctuary in Academia: Tales from the Pandemic  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40629

\bibitem{asee_peer_40629}
  Miller, C., \& Castaneda, D., \& Aleman, M. (2022, August), \emph{Creating Sanctuary in Academia: Tales from the Pandemic}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40629

Callie Miller, Daniel Castaneda, and Melissa Aleman.  "Creating Sanctuary in Academia: Tales from the Pandemic".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40629 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40629}
  Callie Miller, Daniel Castaneda, and Melissa Aleman.
  "Creating Sanctuary in Academia: Tales from the Pandemic".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40629 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  - The COVID-19 pandemic roared into our lives in Spring 2020 like a hurricane, unmooring the academic “ship.” Two junior (tenure-track) faculty members came together in Fall 2020 to plan and deliver in Spring 2021 a highly synchronized, remote introductory engineering mechanics course. At the forefront of their planning was that their instructional approaches would be resilient against any number of uncertainties and unknowns. What emerged from this collaborative teaching experience were practices that enhanced care for others (faculty and student) and challenged the masculine norms of academia. Their partnership grew to include others into a community of faculty that offered support, sanctuary, and balance – a trifecta that offered an “anchor” for the unmoored academic ship.

The narratives examined in this paper tell of faculty survival: rebalancing duties in the context of rapidly shifting expectations at work and home, making sense of demanding and impersonal university messaging, and grappling with a historical moment when families experienced unprecedented strains in caregiving, mostly felt by working women. This survival required transformative, relationship-centered practices and pedagogies grounded in care and collaboration. Using mediated collaborative autoethnography and interviewing methodologies, we recount the story of that faculty partnership, particularly noting gendered differences in their experiences. This paper offers an analysis of these faculty narratives through a gendered lens that demonstrate how a supportive partnership led to the creation of a new faculty culture that could potentially be realized more broadly within academia and engineering education. The themes we explore under the broader umbrella of collaboration are survival, creating sanctuary, setting boundaries, and faculty empowerment. We hope our stories tell of the reward in demonstrating care for others as it relates to fostering meaningful, inclusive working relationships that enhance student and faculty retention and persistence in engineering education.

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