Scenario: In 2022, you will be eligible for tenure as a university professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies. One of the undergraduate courses you teach focuses on the critical analysis of how gender as a social construct informs our experiences and identities, the interrelationships between gender, sexualities, race, class, nation, and ability, and to connect such inquiry to issues within the local and global arenas. This is one of the most popular courses on campus. A major demonstration to address social injustices in various social settings including higher education is planned by numerous community organizers where the university is located. Your students want to play a major role in support of the event and have asked that you lead them in planning and organizing events to raise awareness on social injustices at the university. However, the university has not sanctioned its support for this event.
Write a 250- to 300-word response to the following:
• How would you exercise ethical influence to frame the moral value of this event for the university leadership?
• What leadership expectations does the university have of you?
• What competing frames of influence exist between students and university leaders’ expectations?
• Do any of the frames invoke moral values?