Description: * A guide and Inspiration to African American faculty and those aspiring to a career in higher education * Opens a vital debate about equity in our colleges and universities Despite their qualifications and talent, most African American PhDs and faculty experience unspoken challenges in their lives on campus, and barriers to advancement in their careers in higher education. This book aims to open a conversation about equity, and about creating productive work environments and community that is rarely heard in the halls of predominantly white colleges and universities. Lee Jones offers a starting point for that conversation by drawing together historical accounts, interviews, research and analysis. Part motivational, part guidance for African American faculty and doctoral students, this book has much to say of relevance to members of other under represented populations. Its insights and recommendations should further command the attention of all leaders in higher education. Lee Jones not only addresses the facts and the surface issues - such as the decline in the number of Ph.D.s awarded to African Americans and the dismantling of affirmative action programs - but probes beneath them to look at the unspoken realities. The book opens with an account of the first black student to graduate from an American university with a PhD and goes on to present case studies of African Americans who have succeeded in their academic careers. The book concludes by offering survival techniques for aspiring Ph.D.s; and mapping out the politics that black faculty have to consider, and the strategies they need to adopt, as they pursue careers in a climate that, more often than not, places demoralizingbarriers in their way.

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