What to Expect and How to Respond offers a solutions oriented glimpse into life in academia from the vantage point of groups including students, faculty and administrators. This interdisciplinary anthology provides insight into the profession for graduate students planning on becoming academics; brings to the attention of junior faculty potential tenure and promotion pitfalls as well as strategies to successfully overcome potential obstacles; offers senior faculty strategies to improve collegiality and the workplace environment; and provides administrators with tools to proactively and effectively contend with sensitive managerial matters. This interdisciplinary anthology is useful for undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline designed to prepare them for a career in academia whether as staff, faculty or an administrator. Moreover, this volume is a fine resource for those already in academia who may be experiencing any one or number of specific challenges highlighted from which useful survival strategies could be garnered.

About the Author
Earl Wright II is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati and the author of groundbreaking works on the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory to American sociology. He is also the past president of the Association of Black Sociologists and Mid-South Sociological Association. Thomas C. Calhoun is Associate Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Jackson State University and he has published extensively in the area of deviance. He is the recipient of the Aida Tomeh Outstanding Teaching Award and J. Milton Yinger Distinguished Career Award from the North Central Sociological Association; the A. Wade Smith Outstanding Teaching Award and the James E. Blackwell Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Black Sociologists; and is past president of the Association of Black Sociologists, Mid-South Sociological Association and North Central Sociological Association.

Reviews
The collection of essays assembled in What to Expect and How to Respond offers clear insight into the world of higher education as experienced from the vantage point of minority faculty and administrators, at various stages of their careers. Each compelling narrative emphasizes overcoming challenges and obstacles in "tense" and oftentimes "traumatic" environments. This unique text provides readers with a lens to deconstruct events and ways to build resilience within institutions in which they could otherwise feel defenseless. -- DeMond S. Miller, director, Liberal Arts and Sciences Institute for Research and Community Service, Rowan University
What to Expect and How to Respond addresses race and cultural democracy in the American academy from the perspectives of a select racially and culturally diverse group of women and men. The horrors and distress described are painful to read. More importantly, however, while perceived horrors and distress exist, insight is provided to those who seek ways to be victorious rather than victims. -- Delores P. Aldridge Ph.D, Emory University, Grace Towns Hamilton, distinguished professor emerita of sociology and African American studies, Emory University
What to Expect and How to Respond should be required reading for graduate students in professional seminars. Entering the job of university professor can seem, to the outsider, to be a laid back position with lots of free time and wonderful colleagues. Those of us who have had careers as professors quickly learned that much of this is not true. Finally this academic reality has been put between two covers. Read each chapter; learn the lessons given; enter the ivory tower; and become successful! -- Craig J. Forsyth, editor, Deviant Behavior, University of Louisiana, Lafayette



Book Information
ISBN 9781475827446
Author Earl Wright, II
Format Hardback
Page Count 218
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 472g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 162mm * 21mm