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Alvin J. Schexnider - Confessions of a Black Academic, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Confessions of a Black Academic

A Memoir

Av Alvin J. Schexnider

396 kr

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In this book, retired university president Alvin J. Schexnider shares the lived experiences that shaped his career and the challenges presented by race. About half of his career was spent at white universities. He details how he navigated those challenges in spite of longstanding policies and practices. He examines how certain events of his youth shaped his views on race including segregation, the execution of a Black man in his hometown, lynching in the South, and the pervasive opposition and violence spawned by the civil rights movement. The second half of his career was spent at historically Black universities (HBCUs) where, as a product of one, he felt a sense of commitment.Schexnider provides a unique lens through which his career evolved from the early days of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity (AA/EEO) to the current era of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The book spotlights the continuing role of race in the recruitment, promotion and retention of Black faculty, the challenges to DEI, and its ability to effect change. It contrasts affirmative action and diversity and argues that diversity is more likely to benefit other ethnic groups rather than Blacks based on current trends in higher education. The book concludes with a chapter on the future of HBCUs, a sector of higher education that is currently receiving unprecedented attention but is likely fleeting. This chapter acknowledges the challenges and opportunities HBCUs face and it offers strategies to put them on a sustainable path to secure their future.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-07-25
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
  • Vikt: 290 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 110
  • Förlag: McFarland & Co Inc
  • ISBN: 9781476693378
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Alvin J. Schexnider is a retired university president living in Chesapeake, Virginia. He led three higher education institutions in a career that spanned more than four decades. He is a board governance consultant whose clients are trustees and presidents of public and private colleges and universities throughout the country. His articles have appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed and Trusteeship.

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“Confessions of a Black Academic is a deeply personal and poignant memoir of an African American academician who negotiated segregated Louisiana in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, the decade in which he entered the Vietnam War. Alvin Schexnider has offered a riveting account of his time as a soldier during the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement, and as higher educational opportunities were opening for African Americans at majority white institutions. During his climb up the academic ladder, he experienced successes right along with blatant racial discrimination in a time when many professors of color were seen as ‘affirmative action hires’ and hence not as qualified as their white counterparts. Confessions of a Black Academic in many ways is a blueprint for faculty members of color and how they might navigate their careers in higher education which continues to evolve during the era of the Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-related educational changes.”—Christopher A. Brooks, professor of anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University

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