Intellectual Capital in Academic Fields
research expands social justice and extends resources to minority communities.
Dr. Ferentino’s, an associate professor in education who invests in entrepreneurial
projects are funded by information-technology industries. Her work facilitates the introduction of
computers to urban Latino families. Dr. Ferentino said,
We just got a grant from IBM to put high-tech computer labs in Latino Family Institute in
Philadelphia and use a pure education model to train high school students and Latino
family services to staff this computer lab, and to teach other kids how to use computers.
Latino faculty drew on theories from their academic fields when verbally expressing how they
make sense of economic capital as intellectual capital. Dr. de la Gurrera relies on Merton’s
(1973) “Mathew Effect.” She said, “It’s like the rich get richer kind of Mathews Effect because
once you make your significant need, the other benefit come very quickly.” Dr. de la Guerra
advises junior faculty to, “get into one or two of those big journals early on because…funders are
more likely to fund you when they see your name in the prestigious journals attached to them so
that’s what I mean by the rich get richer.” This excerpt mirrors other Latino faculty accounts.
In a sense, Dr. Guillermo pursues R&D projects to help Latino communities. He said,
“We just got a million this year, ESL grant from [the] US Department of education, and I’ve
been made project director, and that’s a five year position. Five year grant anyway.” Dr. de la
Torre had received $800,000 in grant money that was “coming down from the department of
justice as regards to, like this community outreach, make sure that people were living none
violent safe productive lives.” Mobilizing resources to improve minority communities are
becoming lucrative practice for social justice at entrepreneurial universities.
VENEER LEGITIMACY: Translation of Capital in Context
Campbell and Slaughter (1999) contend that attitudinal differences exist among revenue
involved, revenue non-involved faculties, and administrators. In my study, no Latino professors
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