Table of Contents

Contents: Lee Jones: Foreword – Fred A. Bonner II/Marcheta Evans: Can You Hear Me?: Voices and Experiences of African American Students in Higher Education – H. Richard Milner: African American Graduate Students’ Experiences: A Critical Analysis of Recent Research – Joy L. Gaston: Preparing for the Professorate: What African American Students Should Know – Cassandra Sligh DeWalt: In the Midst of a Maze: A Need for Mentoring – Theodorea R. Berry: Why Are These White Women Trying to Run My Life? One Black Woman’s Experience Toward Earning a Doctorate – Sherick Hughes: Beyond the Silenced Dialogue: What We Tell Ourselves When the White Academy Ain’t Hearin’ Us – Paul F. Bitting: So Grows the Tree: Some Assumptions Underlying the College Professorate and Their Repercussions on Higher Education – Robin Hughes: The Dwindling Pool of Qualified Professors of Color: Suburban Legends – Lisa D. Hobson-Horton: Avoiding the Clock Stoppers: How to Prepare for, Endure, and Survive the First Year of the Professorate – Kimberly Lenease King/Ivan E. Watts: Assertiveness or the Drive to Succeed?: Surviving at a Predominantly White University – Gloria Kersey-Matusiak: The Power of One Voice: Why Faculty of Color Should Stay in Small, Private, Predominantly White Institutions – Dia Sekayi: From Disbelief, Presumption, and Disrespect to Membership in the Legacy of Competence: Teaching Experiences at the HBCU and the PWI – James E. Osler II: The Crisis: Classroom Culture: Identifying and Analyzing Seven Factors That Disable an Effective Collegiate Teaching Methodology – Cyrus Marcellus Ellis: «I Shall Not Be Moved»: Teaching Race in a Multiethnic Classroom – Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile: «Who Does She Think She Is?» Growing Up Nationalist and Ending Up Teaching Race in White Space – William A. Smith: Black Faculty Coping with Racial Battle Fatigue: The Campus Racial Climate in a Post-Civil Rights Era – Lemuel W. Watson: Voice of Senior African American Faculty: Understanding the Purpose and the Pursuit of Excellence through Teaching, Research, and Service – Amiri Yasin Al-Hadid: Griots and Rites of Passage: From Graduate School to Professor with Tenure – Jerlando F. L. Jackson: An Emerging Engagement, Retention, and Advancement (ERA) Model for African American Administrators at Predominantly White Institutions – Ella Forbes: 20/20 Hindsight – Sibby Anderson-Thompkins/ Marybeth Gasman/Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin/Karry Lane Hathaway/Lisa Rasheed: «Casualties of War»: Suggestions for Helping African American Graduate Students Succeed in the Academy – Mark A. Williams: «I Got Mine, Now You Get Yours»: Derailing the Underground Railroad – Etta R. Hollins: Epilogue.