https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562921990420 Journal of Management Education 2021, Vol. 45(2) 163–176 © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1052562921990420 journals.sagepub.com/home/jmd Editors’ Corner Small Silences: Privilege, Power, and Advantage as Management Educators Kathy Lund Dean 1 and Jeanie M. Forray 2 As we write this editorial, “The Year That Was 2020” has ended, and many of us have bid it good riddance. Yet we have all learned a lot since March 2020—about ourselves as educators and about our students as multifaceted people whose lives away from our institutions impact their on-campus lives in myriad, and now seemingly obvious, ways. No one learns effectively, for example, if they are food or housing insecure—facts that are obvious on their face but which many of us in higher education, prior to the pandemic, seemed not to connect to the students we know. As coeditors, we have been engaged in our own reflective learning process (Dewey, 1938), moving from our individual to shared experiences to reflect- ing on them as levers of learning. What we have determined through this process is that it is impossible to consider what we learned in the past year without engaging with the concept of privilege. Privilege is simultaneously an enormously complex lived experience descriptor and a keenly accurate label that we could affix to countless actions, outcomes, and occurrences. Throughout our editorial and instructional work this year (and every year, of course), we know that our privilege permeates most decisions we make. From the choices we make about instructional design, to the articles we ulti- mately accept to be published in Journal of Management Education (JME), to our work with the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) Board and membership, to the authors with whom we 1 Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, USA 2 Western New England University, Springfield, MA, USA Corresponding Author: Kathy Lund Dean, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 West College, St. Peter, MN 56082, USA. Email: editor@mobts.org 990420JME XX X 10.1177/1052562921990420Journal of Management EducationLund Dean and Forray research-article 2021