Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh is Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Professor of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, USA. A member of the Oregon and Indiana Bar Associations, she also serves as an elected Boardmember of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE).

• Introduction.- Farewell Again.- Passage One: Institutional Responsiveness in the Absence of SOULS.- Exodus and The Day of Reckoning.- The Board Room.- The Cleanup Woman.- Passage Two: Safety In The Academy.- Saving Our Children.- A Profound 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 in the Academy.- No Tea, No Shade.- Towering University Goddam.- Call and Response.- Passage Five: Love and Spirituality in the Academy: A Change Is Gonna Come.- A Change Is Gonna Come.- Out of the Ashes.- From Farewell Again to SOULS Celebration.- Implications, Resources and Exemplars.

Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh is Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Professor of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, USA. A member of the Oregon and Indiana Bar Associations, she also serves as an elected Boardmember of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE).

• Introduction.- Farewell Again.- Passage One: Institutional Responsiveness in the Absence of SOULS.- Exodus and The Day of Reckoning.- The Board Room.- The Cleanup Woman.- Passage Two: Safety In The Academy.- Saving Our Children.- A Profound 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 in the Academy.- No Tea, No Shade.- Towering University Goddam.- Call and Response.- Passage Five: Love and Spirituality in the Academy: A Change Is Gonna Come.- A Change Is Gonna Come.- Out of the Ashes.- From Farewell Again to SOULS Celebration.- Implications, Resources and Exemplars.

Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh is Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Professor of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, USA. A member of the Oregon and Indiana Bar Associations, she also serves as an elected Boardmember of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE).

• Introduction.- Farewell Again.- Passage One: Institutional Responsiveness in the Absence of SOULS.- Exodus and The Day of Reckoning.- The Board Room.- The Cleanup Woman.- Passage Two: Safety In The Academy.- Saving Our Children.- A Profound 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 in the Academy.- No Tea, No Shade.- Towering University Goddam.- Call and Response.- Passage Five: Love and Spirituality in the Academy: A Change Is Gonna Come.- A Change Is Gonna Come.- Out of the Ashes.- From Farewell Again to SOULS Celebration.- Implications, Resources and Exemplars.