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Local Cosmopolitans and Cosmopolitan Locals: New Models of Professionals in the Academy
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 31, Number 2, Winter 2008
- pp. 209-235
- 10.1353/rhe.2007.0079
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This essay critically examines the centrality of mobility to the model of being a higher education professor or a student affairs professional. Using three narratives of lower-income Latino students about their educational and professional choices, we offer a reading based on Gouldner's classic conception of cosmopolitans and locals, and on Baez's more recent discussion of critical agency and race-related service. We suggest the value of a model that rebalances cosmopolitan engagement in the national profession with knowledge of and commitment to the local community and to social change.