"Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women to the Next Generation""

Advice from Black women academics. Not focused on medicine but there may be valuable insights relevant in medicine. Keep this book on your radar, especially if you are a Black woman in leadership!

Dear Department Chair Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation Edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Stephanie Shonekan, and Stephanie G. Adams; with a Foreword by Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole Subjects: Women's Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Education PAPERBACK Available September 2023 ISBN: 9780814350744 Pages: 176 Size: 5x8 Illustrations: 0 illustrations$24.99

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Practical and candid, this book offers actionable steps to help Black women leaders create meaningful success. The reflections and recommendations of the Black women in academic leadership who have contributed these letters to this collection to forge a critical and transformative analysis of race, gender, and higher education leadership. With insights from humanities, social sciences, art, and STEM, this essential resource helps to redefine the academy to meet the challenges of the future. Dear Department Chair is comprised of personal letters from prominent Black women department chairs, deans, vice provosts, and university presidents, addressed to current and future Black women academic professionals, and offers a rich source of peer mentorship and professional development. These letters emerged from Chair at the Table, a research collective and peer-mentoring network of current and former Black women department chairs at colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada. The collective’s works, including this volume, serve as tools for faculty interested in administration, current chairs seeking mentorship, and upper-level administrators working to diversify their ranks. Published by: Wayne State University Press