High-quality leadership in higher education is critical to overall student engagement, persistence, and graduation outcomes. With higher education institutions pushing for more Black enrollment and methods to retain current students, it is essential that institutions reflect the Black academics they serve. In addition, there is a shortage of Black department heads, deans, and provosts to make important decisions about the matriculation of students towards graduation. It is essential that higher education institutions take what they have learned from those who have been in academic leadership roles and develop new strategies to recruit, mentor, and retain high-quality Black academic leaders that reflect the students they will serve. The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact provides experiences, narratives, and best practices that are more inclusive of Black faculty by providing them the opportunity to seek advancement in these critical roles. It presents critical knowledge about academic leadership for Black people and familiarizes readers with policies, practices, and procedures. Covering topics such as predominantly white institutions, second-career Black women, and Black professorates, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for faculty and administrators of higher education, students of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

In an effort to create a more educated workforce in the United States, many community colleges are implementing new practices and strategies to assist under-prepared students. These efforts will ultimately support a stronger and more resilient global workforce. Examining the Impact of Community Colleges on the Global Workforce provides relevant theoretical and conceptual frameworks, best practices, and emerging empirical research about new approaches being employed in community colleges to prepare students for their post-collegiate careers. Featuring recent initiatives in educational settings, this publication is a critical reference source for higher education practitioners, policymakers, and graduate students in higher education administration programs interested in the innovative practices utilized by community colleges to educate underserved students.

In the early twentieth century, Winston-Salem was hailed as the "town of a hundred millionaires." Booming tobacco and textile manufacturing industries converged to make Winston-Salem the largest and richest city in all of North Carolina, and major architects flocked to the area to design for its newly wealthy clientele. Ambitious commercial buildings and gracious suburban estates abounded, hosting generations of families that shaped the economic future of the country. Great Houses and Their Stories explores Winston-Salem's finest residential architecture from that era--its spacious mansions, palatial gardens, and even working farms--and delves deeply into the stories of the people who lived and worked in those historic buildings. This is a book for the preservationists, history buffs, and architecture lovers of the world and for the Winston-Salem residents who have always wondered about the abundance of green-roofed mansions still surviving in their city, even as similar pockets of early 20th century architecture throughout the country have been lost to time. Author Margaret Supplee Smith, Ph.D., and photographer Jackson Smith tell the rich histories of more than 75 great houses through beautiful new photography, historic photographs, personal narratives, and oral histories. Through diligent research of historical records and interviews with residents and local historians, they've uncovered fascinating stories about the families whose fortunes shaped neighborhoods like Buena Vista, West Highlands, and Reynolda Park. By publishing this book, Preservation North Carolina hopes to advance the preservation of Winston-Salem's rich architectural legacy, which is highly threatened by demolition and overdevelopment.

High-quality leadership in higher education is critical to overall student engagement, persistence, and graduation outcomes. With higher education institutions pushing for more Black enrollment and methods to retain current students, it is essential that institutions reflect the Black academics they serve. In addition, there is a shortage of Black department heads, deans, and provosts to make important decisions about the matriculation of students towards graduation. It is essential that higher education institutions take what they have learned from those who have been in academic leadership roles and develop new strategies to recruit, mentor, and retain high-quality Black academic leaders that reflect the students they will serve. The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact provides experiences, narratives, and best practices that are more inclusive of Black faculty by providing them the opportunity to seek advancement in these critical roles. It presents critical knowledge about academic leadership for Black people and familiarizes readers with policies, practices, and procedures. Covering topics such as predominantly white institutions, second-career Black women, and Black professorates, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for faculty and administrators of higher education, students of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

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Rebecca's father was a high ranking Air Force officer who worked his way through the ranks to become a four-star General in the years after the war. During the war, he flew the first B-29 bombing missions against Japan, and was assigned to plan and supervise the bombing of Hiroshima. After the completion of the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, her father was assigned the command of Roswell Army Airfield in New Mexico, and it was during his watch that the Roswell UFO Incident occurred. He died at the Pentagon at the age of 50 from a heart attack, though Rebecca was convinced he was murdered. Her growing concern was that she would be killed as well since she knew too much about the secret missions of the Air Force. She confided in a friend who suggested that she see a therapist, Kai was not a typical therapist, but a Navajo Indian doctor. who relied heavily on the spirit world in her therapy. What started as a therapy session became a ten hour encounter with an alien, a charming, intelligent and witty being who taught Rebecca both the universal appeal of the people of earth and new ways to deal with a highly dysfunctional civilization. Her experience was too real to be considered fantasy and too uncanny to be seen as proof of alien life, though one small gesture at the book's conclusion confirms the existence of her new mentor.

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The history of the Jackson family, like many other African American families and individuals, is an example of those whose lives are threads interwoven into the history of this country. Much more than a family history, this history is written so that hist

Jack Wendell's rite of passage into adulthood began three hours before midnight on the eve of his twenty-first birthday. On his stroll across campus, he watched one foot follow the other in a rhythmic pattern and thought about time. As he stepped from the past into the future, he was stunned by the realization that the present moment was so fleeting that it couldn't exist. His breathing became shallow and feelings of horror flushed through his body in spasms, like waves crashing on the shoreline, retreating, then returning in another blow. He was convinced that he had entered a portal into hell, and he endured the agony of the next three hours. When the clock struck midnight, he entered a bar, ordered a glass of whiskey, and the elixir washed away his panic with three magic bends of his elbow. This was only the beginning of Wendell's long love affair with booze, his only relief from the anxiety attacks that haunted him in an era when little was known about the disorder. He couldn't function with the anxiety that possessed him and drank in an attempt to control his horrifying feelings, but couldn't work in a perpetual state of intoxication. On his journey, he encountered a host of unlikely companions and circumstances, including rehabs, institutions, therapists and a horde of dysfunctional people who would harbor him for a time, yet, sooner or later, he was forced onto the street again in search of another haven, where he could drink to his heart's content. The Road To Fort Worth is a long overdue novel about a man suffering from panic disorder and alcoholism. It could be seen as a continuation of Charles R. Jackson's classic novel, The Lost Weekend. It's the story of a life on the rocks with a twist of lemon. It's the story of how one man learned to untie the inextricable knot binding two debilitating disorders that so many people have been unable to unravel.