Abstract In this think piece, the author explores a conundrum and tension related to using rubrics to evaluate doctoral work. She ponders whether the use of rubrics provides beneficial ways for students to “crack the code” of academia, and/or whether the use of rubrics is perhaps a tool to engender conformity. With these competing ideas in mind, the author considers in what ways one might press for means to provide this on-ramp of access for students to the existing power structures, while at the same time seeking to change academia, to more equitably provide spaces for a range in ways of knowing, growing, expressing, framing, and presenting research. How might scholars support their students in engaging in what Rochelle Gutiérrez describes as simultaneously “playing the game” while also “changing the game?” Invoking challenges to existing power structures, such as those voiced in critical race theory and decolonizing epistemologies, this essay speaks to the tensions within the sacred spaces in academia which have been established by those with the greatest historical power.

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专栏文章：一个难题，一个案例和一个电话

摘要在这个思想中，作者探讨了与使用专论评估博士工作有关的难题和张力。她在思考使用红字是否为学生提供了一种“破解学术界守则”的有益方式，和/或使用红字是否可能是促进合规的工具。考虑到这些相互竞争的想法，作者考虑了可以采用何种方式寻求使学生获得现有权力结构的途径，同时寻求改变学术界，以便更公平地为学生提供空间。一系列了解，发展，表达，制定框架和提出研究的方式。学者如何支持学生参与RochelleGutiérrez所说的“玩游戏”同时“改变游戏”？这篇文章提出了对现有权力结构的挑战，例如批判种族理论和非殖民主义认识论中提出的挑战。这篇文章谈到了学术界神圣空间内的紧张局势，这些紧张局势是由具有最大历史权力的人所建立的。