Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and Lessons from Higher Education

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Friday, December 16, 2022 | 5:30pm to 7pm

25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000
between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan

Note: This will be a hybrid lecture, with limited in-person capacity, and accessible via Zoom. Vaccination and mask required for in-person.

Editors Nicholas D. Hartlep and Daisy Ball will discuss their book, Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty (Routledge, 2019) which examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of color—including African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populations—in higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories. Chapters illustrate on-the-ground experiences, elucidating the struggles and triumphs of faculty of color as they navigate the historically White setting of higher education, and provide actionable strategies to help faculty and administrators combat these issues. This book gives voice to faculty struggles and arms graduate students, faculty, and administrators committed to diversity in higher education with the specific tools needed to reduce Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) and make lasting and impactful change.

Purchase Book: https://www.routledge.com/Racial-Battle-Fatigue-in-Faculty-Perspectives-and-Lessons-from-Higher-Education/Hartlep-Ball/p/book/9780367149383

Author Bio

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Nicholas D. Hartlep holds the Robert Charles Billings Chair in Education at Berea College where he Chairs the Department of Education Studies. Prior to Berea College, Dr. Hartlep Chaired the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Metropolitan State University, an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) in St. Paul, Minnesota. While there he also served as the Graduate Program Coordinator.

Dr. Hartlep has published 22 books, mostly recently What Makes a Star Teacher? Seven Dispositions that Encourage Student Learning (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2019). His book The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education, with Lucille L. T. Eckrich and Brandon O. Hensley (2017) was named an Outstanding Book by the Society of Professors of Education. In 2018, the Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) granted Dr. Hartlep the John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagement Award. In 2017, Metropolitan State University presented him with both the 2017 Community Engaged Scholarship Award and the President’s Circle of Engagement Award. In 2016, the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee presented him with a Graduate of the Last Decade Award for his prolific writing. In 2015, he received the University Research Initiative Award from Illinois State University and a Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Winona State University.

Dr. Hartlep is currently writing What Can Be Learned from Work Colleges? An Education That Works (SUNY Press). www.nicholashartlep.com


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Daisy Ball is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program in the Department of Public Affairs at Roanoke College (Salem, VA). Her research focuses on the intersection of race and crime, with an emphasis on the criminal justice contact of Asian Americans.