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Alex Briesacher loves teaching his students. Asking around campus, those students who have taken his sociology classes mention his approachability, caring nature, honesty, and innate ability to teach through stories and humor as reasons they return to his classes as often as they can.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u201cThe students here are a lot of fun once you get past certain barriers they put up,\u201d says Briesacher. \u201cOne of my favorite classes to teach is capstone. All these students have built capstone up in their heads, and my syllabus is essentially \u2018so what do you want to do?\u2019 These students have all these ideas and I\u2019m like \u2018sweet, go do it.\u2019 And then they go do it, and you get this amazing research and amazing projects.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And it\u2019s not just in the classroom that Alex is helping to make a difference within student\u2019s lives. His passion for creating inclusion and belonging on campus extends past the Tiffany Gates to the greater Worcester community as well.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The Intersection of Identity & Debate<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Alex grew up in Belleville, Illinois, a predominantly whilte working class community located a short way from St. Louis, Missouri. In the early 90s, Belleville was voted the most racist town in all of America on 60 Minutes<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u201cLiving in it, I couldn\u2019t see it. I ended up going to a functionally segregated high school…they segregated based on level, so I was in honors classes, which just happened to have one student of color. And then as you go from honors classes down, you go from having one student of color to the remedial classes that are all students of color. It\u2019s de facto segregation, and I recognized that I have this privilege, because I\u2019m white.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As Alex continued to learn about who he was, he was thrown a curveball.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cCollege is a weird moment in everybody\u2019s life,\u201d Alex says. \u201cAt least in terms of my identity, my shit\u2019s weird. I was 21 at the time, and my grandmother on my mom\u2019s side [who was adopted] didn\u2019t know her ethnic heritage. She did one of those genetic tests, and learned when she was 72 that she was black and didn\u2019t know it. She sent for the genetic test and they sent her a refund saying \u2018we can\u2019t do it because your background is from Africa and we can\u2019t map Africa genetically.\u2019 So I have this weird identify stuff bouncing around.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

While in high school and throughout college at Illinois State University, Alex participated in academic debate. It was through debate that he began to question some of what he had been seeing all his life. Debate topics included Iran, Africa, Native Americans, and Title VII (employment descrimination).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI had this period of time where people were yelling at me, because of debate, because that\u2019s how it\u2019s structured. You grow a thick skin to it, but you start deconstructing what all of this [topic information and research] means.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The activity of debate on college campuses was diverse, and becoming more so while Alex was active in the national college debate community.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cIt was transitioning from a white, heteronormative space into a queer space. My junior\/senior year, we started doing work with urban debate communities, so we could start diversifying in terms of race. We were judging at urban debate communities at inner city schools that were trying to do this activity that was sort of white, and then after that we went back and started coaching teams. There was an opportunity to create space, to use that privilege to create space and help it diversity.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

His work with underrepresented communities continued in his life past the debate scene. Previously, Alex worked with Black and Latino math students while working on his dissertation, which focused on how the experiences and perceptions of discrimination in the classroom affects student\u2019s performance and mental health. And the work continued here on campus, where he was an active member of the Campus Climate Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Overcoming the Second Body Problem<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When asked how he\u2019s changed as a leader while at Worcester State, Alex is quick to identify patience as the skill that he has refined the most over the past few years.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“I think part of the reason for that was because I came as an adjunct. People sort of looked at me…there\u2019s this perception amongst some faculty members that the only reason I had a job was because of Erika [Briesacher, Associate Professor of History & Political Science]. It\u2019s described as the second body problem, and there\u2019s this implied threat for new adjuncts in particular, that if you step out of line you\u2019re going to lose your job. So it was sort of this forced patience that has sort of evolved, and it\u2019s given me a better understanding of how here works, from the bottom up. Most faculty don\u2019t come here as adjuncts and see how the process works.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Even more important than patience? An understanding of when something is no longer right for him. As a member of multiple campus and greater-Worcester area committees, Alex has had to recognize when it\u2019s time for him to bow out.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been on committees where\u2026[committee organizers] didn\u2019t like the direction it was going. I\u2019ll ride out that committee for as long as I can, and then when it hits the point where we are not going in a direction that I think is good, I\u2019m going to step back. I\u2019m going to step out.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The best part of working as a faculty at Worcester State, besides forming connections with his students, is the freedom to complete research he\u2019s interested in and participate with initiatives that he is passionate about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI was hired to teach stats, among other things, [but I also] have the freedom to do that campus climate work, and then when I\u2019m done with the campus climate work, go to the Worcester Public [Schools] work.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Making Space<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Alex defines a great leader as someone who can make space for others and is able to learn from those around them. As mentioned above, he is a former member of the Campus Climate Committee, which was started a few years ago to assess the current status of the campus climate for underrepresented students and make suggestions for improvements to create a more inclusive campus. Alex also works with a team of teachers in the Worcester Public schools researching student discipline policies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When asked about his biggest accomplishment since beginning at WSU, Alex is quick to answer with his campus climate work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cThe results of the work from the Campus Climate Committee, that\u2019s what my research is. Finding out what other people think and telling people \u2018hey, they said this.\u2019 There\u2019s all this stuff that we got done. The LGBTQ<\/a> Center, they used our work to support [that].\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It\u2019s also important for a leader to learn from others; one of the biggest misconceptions of leadership is that a leader has to know what they are doing all of the time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s important if you\u2019re dealing with a [group], making it clear to the team of the class or whoever you\u2019re working with that everybody\u2019s winging it. We\u2019re all just guessing. Some of us guess with style. There\u2019s plenty of times where I\u2019m doing work in the Worcester CityLab<\/a> and we\u2019re covering the boards with ideas and asking each other \u2018what do you want to do?\u2019 And we just see what happens. It\u2019s the advantage of doing statistics – I can run hundreds of models in a day, and I\u2019m guessing every time.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n


Alex\u2019s final words for students who are just beginning to explore the type of leader they hope to become? They are inspired by Vaclav Havel, a leader of the Velvet Revolution.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cOne of the things that he writes about is fear of death. Those things that we\u2019re supposed to be afraid of, once we stop being afraid of them things open up. When you\u2019re facing something you start questioning. Once you overcome what you\u2019re supposed to be afraid of, there\u2019s nothing left to stop you.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Alex Briesacher is a recipient of the Alden Award and Campus Collaboration Award.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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