Overview

The first book to address campus crises that's by and for faculty, staff, and students—the true heart of higher ed and the people who make it work. Higher education is in crisis—and there's no shortage of books by campus leaders about how to fix it. This volume is by and for the rest of us—the faculty, staff, and students who comprise the lion's share of campus populations. It is our values, livelihoods, and prospects for success that are most threatened by these crises—and, often, by top-level administrators' responses to them. The volume brings together more than forty contributors from colleges and universities across the United States and beyond. Essays address a range of aspects of the current polycrisis, including declarations of financial exigency, program closures and faculty layoffs, campus closures, political interference, and outbreaks of violence. Authors draw on their own experiences—and those of their colleagues and students—to share what worked, what didn't, and what they learned along the way. If crisis hasn't come to your campus yet, don't worry, it will. When it does, this book will help.

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Author:   Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo (Singer-Hill Professor Emerita of Russian, West Virginia University) ,  Kevin M. Gannon (Director and Professor of History, Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and University of Charlotte)
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9798855805789

Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Editors' Note Acknowledgments Introduction Lisa Di Bartolomeo and Kevin Gannon Part 1: West Virginia University as Case Study 1. ""Mountaineers Go First"": The WVU Mistake Lisa Di Bartolomeo 2. Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction: The Financialization of Higher Ed Lisa M. Corrigan 3. Fighting the Lies: A Brief History of the ""WVU Facts"" Report Anonymous, WVU 4. Let the Record Show: Documenting Attacks on Academia from Inside the Ivory Tower Sean Davis Lawrence 5. Rednecks and Loud Voices: Building the West Virginia University United Students' Union Christian Adams and Winston Smith 6. It starts with a visa: Intranational support for international students in the United States Emil Asanov 7. If You Answer, They Will Call: Standing in the Media Spotlight Lisa Di Bartolomeo Part 2: Fighting Fiscal and Political Interference 8. A Plague of Consultants: Fighting the New Epidemic in Higher Education Kevin Gannon 9. Teaching as Activism during a Campus Crisis William Caraher 10. Fighting for Higher Education's Liberatory Potential: Front Line Solutions from a College in Crisis Meaghan Davis, Kathleen Gray, and Sara Rzeszutek 11. Campus ""Free Speech Crises,"" Law, and Power Andy J. Carr 12. Teaching ""Divisive Concepts"": The Destructive Impacts of a University Culture of Censorship Lindsay Stallones Marshall and Christine Zabala-Eisshofer 13. SB 202: Opposing Anti-DEI Legislation at an R2 in Indiana Jennifer Grouling, Matthew R. Hotham, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, and Camille Engle Part 3: Building Communities of Care 14. Generative Pedagogy and Starting Good Things Luke Waltzer 15. Radical Empathy and Radical Hope: Teaching, Learning, Caring, and Community in Times of Crisis Brian Smentkowski 16. Times Like These: Supporting First-Year Students and Contingent Faculty through a Polycrisis Joel E. R. Smith, Joseph Nardinelli, and Matthew Austin 17. Embracing Care as Strategy in Higher Education Crises Molly Hatcher and Kaitlyn Rose Farrell Rodriguez 18. Dandelions in the Wind: Planting Resilient Seeds During and After a Campus Closure Heather Keith and Christina Fabrey 19. Lessons from a College Closure Kent Andersen, William Tynes Cowan, Louanne Clayton Jacobs, Kevin Shook, and Greta Valenti Part 4: Shared Governance and Organizing for Solidarity 20. The Politics of Weakness: Faculty Senate and Faculty Governance in Crisis Evan A. Kutzler and John LeJeune 21. Being Human Through a Campus Crisis Shu-Min Liao, Sheila Jaswal, Sarah L. Bunnell, Mona Wu Orr, and Zachary Watson 22. Managing the crisis of recruiting and retaining diverse, national faculty members Mari Elise Ewing and Andrea Overbay 23. Mentoring Squares: Establishing a Peer-Mentoring Program to Support Non-Tenure Track Faculty Dana Grossman Leeman and Ryan Rideau 24. Where Are the Faculty? Reflections on Higher Education's Labor Movement and the Role of Faculty in Wall-to-Wall Organizing Dylan M. Harris and Jon Shefner 25. Academics of the World, Unite! On the Importance of Internationalism in Addressing Campus Crises Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary and Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch Coda List of Contributors

Reviews

""An inside, blow-by-blow look at the most important unraveling of a public university in this decade—and so much more. Compelling, fascinating, and heartening."" — Christopher Newfield, author of The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them ""If your college or university is in crisis—and what institution isn't right now?—I highly recommend The Campus Crisis Toolkit. Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin Gannon have put together an indispensable set of case studies and action plans to help arm us all for this current, deadly assault on higher education."" — Cathy N. Davidson, author of The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux and (with Christina Katopodis) The New College Classroom

""If your college or university is in crisis—and what institution isn't right now?—I highly recommend The Campus Crisis Toolkit. Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin Gannon have put together an indispensable set of case studies and action plans to help arm us all for this current, deadly assault on higher education."" — Cathy N. Davidson, author of The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux and (with Christina Katopodis) The New College Classroom

""An inside, blow-by-blow look at the most important unraveling of a public university in this decade—and so much more. Compelling, fascinating, and heartening."" — Christopher Newfield, author of The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them ""If your college or university is in crisis—and what institution isn't right now?—I highly recommend The Campus Crisis Toolkit. Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin M. Gannon have put together an indispensable set of case studies and action plans to help arm us all for this current, deadly assault on higher education."" — Cathy N. Davidson, author of The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux and (with Christina Katopodis) The New College Classroom

Author Information

Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo is Singer-Hill Professor Emerita of Humanities at West Virginia University, where she ran the Russian program until the Department of World Languages was eliminated. She now works for a national environmental organization. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. Kevin M. Gannon is Director for the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte. He is the author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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