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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Peril and Promise By Beverly Daniel Tatum
Description: A former college president and bestselling author offers leadership lessons for today’s troubled campuses
Higher education is under assault from all sides. Scandals, protests, and dramatic resignations dominate the news cycle, and the pressure has grown so severe that the average tenure of university presidents has fallen to less than six years. Even so, Peril and Promise insists, American universities provide the solutions to the ignorance and division that plague our society—but only if wise, courageous leaders step up.
Blending insights from social science with many years of experience as a college president at Spelman and Mount Holyoke Coll...