The SOULS of Black faculty and staff in the American academy : principles for transformation and retention / Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh.
Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M., author.
2023
LC2781.5 .A53 2023
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Title The SOULS of Black faculty and staff in the American academy : principles for transformation and retention / Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh.
Author Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M., author.
ISBN 9783031392290 (electronic bk.)
3031392299 (electronic bk.)
9783031392283
3031392280
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39229-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-39229-0 doi
Call Number LC2781.5 .A53 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.1208996073
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Farewell again
Passage one: Institutional responsiveness and the lack of SOULS
Exodus and the day of reckoning
The board room
The cleanup woman
Passage two: Safety in the academy
Saving our children
An 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
"No tea, no shade"
Towering university, goddam
Call and response
Passage five: Love and spirituality
A change is gonna come
Out of the ashes
From farewell again to SOULS celebration
Implications, resources and exemplars.

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