Campus Crisis Toolkit

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.

• Editors' Note Acknowledgments Introduction Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin M. Gannon Part 1: West Virginia University as Case Study 1. "Mountaineers Go First": The WVU Mistake Lisa M. 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(ing) Show: Documenting the Voices of an Academy in Crisis Sean Davis Lawrence 5. Rednecks and Loud Voices: Building a Students' Union Christian Adams and Winston Smith 6. It Starts with a Visa: Supporting International Students Emil Asanov 7. If You Answer, They Will Call: Standing in the Media Spotlight Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo Part 2: Fighting Fiscal and Political Interference 8. A Plague of Consultants: Fighting the New Epidemic in Higher Education Kevin M. Gannon 9. Teaching a University Budget Crisis as Activism William Caraher 10. The Solutions Project: Liberatory Student-Centered Strategies from a College in Crisis meaghan davis, Kathleen Gray, and Sara Rzeszutek 11. Understanding Campus Free-Speech Controversies: Law, Power, Solidarity Andy J. Carr 12. Teaching "Divisive Concepts": The Destructive Impacts of a University Culture of Censorship Christine Zabala-Eisshofer and Lindsay Stallones Marshall 13. SB 202: Opposing Anti-DEI Legislation at an R2 in Indiana Camille Engle, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Jennifer Grouling, and Matthew R. Hotham Part 3: Building Communities of Care 14. Starting Good Things: Generative Pedagogy and the Art of Creating Community on Campus Luke Waltzer 15. Radical Empathy and Radical Hope: A Guide to Teaching, Learning, and Caring in Times of Crisis Brian Smentkowski 16. Times Like These: Supporting First-Year Students and Contingent Faculty Through a Campus Polycrisis Joseph Nardinelli, Joel E. R. Smith, and Matthew Austin 17. Care as Strategy: Lessons from a Center for Teaching and Learning 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. Collective Lessons from a College Closure: A Conversation Among Colleague 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. The Being Human in STEM Initiative: Campus Transformation Through Crisis Sarah L. Bunnell, Sheila Jaswal, Mona Wu Orr, Shu-Min Liao, and Zachary Watson 22. Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Faculty Mari Elise Ewing and Andrea Overbay 23. Mentoring Squares: Establishing a Peer-Mentoring Program to Support Non–Tenure Track Faculty Ryan Rideau and Dana Grossman Leeman 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 Index

"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