Teaching diversity: The impact of race and gender on our experiences as educators

To date, little attention has been given to the ways in which college-level instructors' gender, class, race, and ethnicity impact their experiences as educators. While some authors have acknowledged the impact of their location within this matrix of identities, both upon the subjects they.choose to teach aswell as upon the ways in which students respond to them, this is still an aspect of tertiary education that is rarely explored in pedagogical training or when decisions regarding tenure and promotion are made. Drawing upon the experiences of two college professors who share different demographic characteristics and life experiences and who teach an array of courses at a large Midwestern university, this manuscript explores the ways in which an individual's identity impacts what they choose to teach, how they teach, and how students respond to them. Implications for instructors. as well as for administrators within institutions of higher learning are discussed

Where did the political party money go?: A comparison between the 2006 and 2008 Oklahoma elections

With the decline of the economy and the implementation of term limits in Oklahoma, campaign money has become increasingly more important to state legislative candidates in Oklahoma. Featuring data from every state legislative contest in the 2006 and 2008 elections, this article seeks to explore the role of money in political campaigns. While many of the traditional expectations held (winners spent more losers, Senate candidates spent more than House candidates, and candidates spent more money overall), the spending of the political parties was the most drastic change in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Both parties, but especially the Democrats, experienced a significant decline in their campaign spending. With Republicans controlling both houses of the Oklahoma legislature, this does not bode well for Oklahoma Democrats in the future if this trend does not change