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Record Nr.

UNINA9910751392703321

Autore

Alex-Assensoh Yvette M

Titolo

The SOULS of Black Faculty and Staff in the American Academy : Principles for Transformation and Retention / / by Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031392290

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 pages)

Disciplina

378.1208996073

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Education and state

Inclusive education

Schools

Race

Social justice

Higher Education

Educational Policy and Politics

Inclusive Education

School Research

Race and Ethnicity Studies

Social Justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Farewell Again -- Passage One: Institutional Responsiveness in the Absence of SOULS -- Exodus and The Day of Reckoning -- The Board Room -- The Cleanup Woman -- Passage Two: Safety In The Academy -- Saving Our Children -- A Profound Act of Self-Preservation -- Students Catalyzing Change -- Our Shared Responsibility -- Passage Three: Organizational Accountability -- The Heart Transplant -- What about the Students? -- Culpability -- Passage Four: Unvarnished Truth Telling in the Academy -- No Tea, No Shade -- Towering University Goddam -- Call and Response -- Passage Five:



Love and Spirituality in the Academy: A Change Is Gonna Come -- A Change Is Gonna Come -- Out of the Ashes -- From Farewell Again to SOULS Celebration -- Implications, Resources and Exemplars.

Sommario/riassunto

This book employs a fiction-based approach to address the revolving door of Black faculty and staff in American colleges and universities as a national crisis that needs to be resolved systematically. Alex-Assensoh coins the acronym SOULS to promote the importance of safety, organizational accountability, unvarnished truth telling, love, and spirituality as the foundational ingredients for reimagining and rebuilding an Academy that harnesses the talents of Black faculty and staff. Chapters feature storytelling to illustrate common cracks in academic structures while interweaving interdisciplinary research to contextualize themes that the fiction-based method reveals. To conclude, the author provides a research-informed call to action within the context of institutional transformation, as well as reflective questions and recommendations for further reading.