Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings - Observations from African American Administrators in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities

African American university and college presidents, vice presidents, and deans offer firsthand reflections on their encounters with racism in higher education and the strategies they use to overcome obstacles they face.

About the author

William B. Harvey is Dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is coeditor, with James R. Valadez, of Creating and Maintaining a Diverse Faculty, a volume in the series New Directions for Community Colleges, and coauthor of Affirmative Rhetoric, Negative Action: African-American and Hispanic Faculty at Predominantly White Institutions.

Product details

• Assisted by: William B Harvey (Editor), William B. Harvey (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.1999
• EAN: 9780791441640
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4164-0
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 228 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Series: Suny Series, Frontiers in Educ
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system