Faculty agency in striving university contexts: mundane yet powerful acts of agency

摘要: Drawing from Archer's critical realist theory of agency, this paper has two specific aims. First, the cultural and structural features one ‘striving’ institution are outlined. Then, I illustrate how faculty members asserted agency inside their striving university in ways intended to disrupt structures cultures that universities produce. Forms included negotiating, critiquing resisting. The work is relevant those who study academic profession; provide support professional development contemporary academics, especially academics serving universities; and, finally, interested possibility human a higher education field marked by pressures both fiscal markets.