This theory states that if someone is given a stereotype about an aspect of their identity before a performance opportunity, their effectiveness is diminished.
What is stereotype threat?
100
This is the field where the majority of Black faculty can be found.
What is education?
100
Give the number (within a thousand) or percentage (within two points) of the UT population that is Black.
What is 2,192 of 50,000, or 4.4%?
100
This man lent his name to the landmark Supreme Court case that challenged the "separate but equal" clause in Plessy vs. Ferguson when he sued UT president T.S. Painter for the right to enroll as a law student at UT.
Who is Heman Marion Sweatt?
100
This professorial rank is the entry level at most universities for career academics.
What is assistant professor?
200
This theory explains how seemingly minor slights based on one's ethnicity can lead to low satisfaction in the collegiate environment.
What are racial microaggressions?
200
This is the decade where many predominantly White institutions opened their doors and heavily recruited Black faculty.
What is the 1960s and 1970s?
200
This career administrator at UT serves as the advisor to the upcoming Big XII Conference on Black Student Government, has a Black staffmember award named after him/her, and was the recipient of the Black Faculty and Staff Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.
Who is Mrs. Brenda Burt?
200
What is the significance of the 1969 UT National Championship football team?
It was the last all-White national championship team. The 1970 championship had one Black player. Of course, UT won the 2005 National Championship with Vince Young named team MVP.
200
This process takes seven years and if successfully completed, grants the earner lifetime employment at the college or university
What is tenure?
300
This theory comes from the field of law and recognizes the centrality of racism, sexism, and classism in American life.
What is critical race theory/pedagogy?
300
This is the term that describes how Black faculty are often overburden with greater service responsibilities.
What is the Black tax?
300
This former student was the first Black person honored with a statue on the UT campus.
Who is Earl Campbell?
300
In what year was UT established?
What is 1883?
300
This administrative position is the chief academic officer of the university.
What is the provost?
400
This psychologist, who developed the theory of stereotype threat, is the twin brother of conservative commentator Shelby Steele.
Who is Claude Steele?
400
This famous Black professor was the subject of a controversy this summer when he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in his own home.
Who is Henry Louis Gates, Jr?
400
This Black student is the president of the Graduate School Assembly (the student government body for graduate students).
Who is Daniel Spikes?
400
UT is one of two college campuses in the US with a statue of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Name the other one.
What is Morehouse College in Atlanta?
400
This concept refers to the fact that faculty are free to engage in research and teaching free from political or institutional pressures
What is academic freedom?
500
This theory explains why Black students with high scores and GPAs perform poorer than White students with similar scores and GPAs.
What is underperformance?
500
This man was the first Black professor at UT in 1964 and has a library named after him.
Who is Ervin Perry?
500
UT's Center for African and African American Studies is named after this former UT professor, who also founded Austin's community radio station, KAZI.
Who is Dr. John L. Warfield?
500
This person was the first Black student to earn an undergraduate degree in engineering at UT in 1959, and has a building named after him/her on the Heman Sweatt Campus next to the Erwin Center.
Who was John W. Hargis?
500
Black women faculty rank lowest in this indicator among all faculty members.