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Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings: African American Administrators in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities (S U N Y SERIES, FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION) - Hardcover
Synopsis
African American university and college presidents, vice presidents, and deans offer firsthand reflections on their encounters with racism in higher education and the strategies they use to overcome obstacles they face.
Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings offers observations and reflections on the experiences of African American leaders in predominantly white institutions of higher education. These current and past presidents, vice presidents, and deans relate frankly and in detail their personal experiences in the academic setting. They discuss their perseverance over obstacles such as racism and sexism, and examine the current and future state of higher education in America. Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings debunks the prevalent myth that academia is a setting where race is irrelevant, and where people are judged only by their intellectual capability.
Contributors include Vera Farris; Wesley Harris; Althia deGraft Johnson; Horace Judson; Reatha Clark King; Marie McDemmond; Charlie Nelms; and Barbara Solomon.
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William B. Harvey is Dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is coeditor, with James R. Valadez, of Creating and Maintaining a Diverse Faculty, a volume in the series New Directions for Community Colleges, and coauthor of Affirmative Rhetoric, Negative Action: African-American and Hispanic Faculty at Predominantly White Institutions.
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“These compelling stories illustrate vividly the authors’ overcoming of obstacles in their climb up the career ladder.” ― Reginald Wilson, Senior Scholar Emeritus, American Council on Education
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- PublisherState Univ of New York Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0791441636
- ISBN 13 9780791441633
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages169
- EditorHarvey William Burnett
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Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings: African American Administrators in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities (SUNY series, Frontiers in Education)
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State Univ of New York Pr, 1999
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ISBN 13: 9780791441633
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