New Video Series on Achieving Academic Success for Early-Career Scholars of Color

A new two-part video series is now available on YouTube, offering guidance for doctoral students and early-career scholars of color. In this series, Dr. Ricardo Stanton-Salazar shares strategies for overcoming academic challenges while reconnecting with inner strengths, cultural assets, and a sense of purpose.

Dr. Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar: I am pleased to announce my new two-part PowerPoint video series, entitled, “Empowered Coping and Goal Attainment,” available on YouTube. The series addresses the challenges faced by doctoral students and early-career scholars of color as they pursue various academic goals—like finishing their dissertation or publishing their first and second journal articles. The challenges I address include systemic racism within academia as well as the “coping patterns” that disconnect young scholars from all the cultural, intellectual, and spiritual assets they have within them (e.g., the “inner critic,” the imposture syndrome, a negative help-seeking orientation).

The second PowerPoint video (Part 2) addresses the scholar’s “inner Sage,” that part of consciousness that activates key parts of the brain, that silences cognitive distress patterns, and enables a scholar to feel empowered and inspired as they pursue their academic goals.

Each of the two PowerPoint videos is a bit more than an hour long, and can be viewed over a period of time. Viewing each video with a trusted colleague may be an optimal way to approach the material, with periods of discussion that include the sharing of personal experiences.

The series emanates from my current work as a developmental editor working mainly with early-career scholars on a journal or book manuscript. I am retired professor of education and sociology, with nearly 40 years in the academic world. My book, Manufacturing Hope and Despair, published by Teachers College Press, was released in 2001. I am of working-class origin, and was the first and only member of my family attain a college degree. My career in education began as an elementary school teacher in. San Diego, California.

Dr. Stanton-Salazar’s video series is available to watch here