The SOULS of Black Faculty and Staff in the American Academy

Download or read book The SOULS of Black Faculty and Staff in the American Academy written by Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.