What to Expect and How to Respond

The collection of essays assembled in What to Expect and How to Respond offers clear insight into the world of higher education as experienced from the vantage point of minority faculty and administrators, at various stages of their careers. Each compelling narrative emphasizes overcoming challenges and obstacles in “tense” and oftentimes “traumatic” environments. This unique text provides readers with a lens to deconstruct events and ways to build resilience within institutions in which they could otherwise feel defenseless. -- DeMond S. Miller, director, Liberal Arts and Sciences Institute for Research and Community Service, Rowan University
What to Expect and How to Respond addresses race and cultural democracy in the American academy from the perspectives of a select racially and culturally diverse group of women and men. The horrors and distress described are painful to read. More importantly, however, while perceived horrors and distress exist, insight is provided to those who seek ways to be victorious rather than victims. -- Delores P. Aldridge Ph.D, Emory University, Grace Towns Hamilton, distinguished professor emerita of sociology and African American studies, Emory University
What to Expect and How to Respond should be required reading for graduate students in professional seminars. Entering the job of university professor can seem, to the outsider, to be a laid back position with lots of free time and wonderful colleagues. Those of us who have had careers as professors quickly learned that much of this is not true. Finally this academic reality has been put between two covers. Read each chapter; learn the lessons given; enter the ivory tower; and become successful! -- Craig J. Forsyth, editor, Deviant Behavior, University of Louisiana, Lafayette