Frayed

“Pope-Ruark turns the compassionate perspective she previously brought to understanding faculty burnout to thinking about the ‘impossible jobs’ done by so many women leaders on college and university campuses. Frayed is filled with actionable advice on how to mitigate burnout at the personal level, but far more importantly presents compelling ideas about how to prevent it at the institutional level, offering strategies for starting a process of deep cultural assessment and change.”-Kathleen Fitzpatrick, author of Leading Generously: Tools for Transformation “Uncertainty and the chronic stress associated with it is now the norm in higher education. Pope-Ruark’s timely book on leadership burnout in higher education does the important work of bringing visibility to the gendered aspects of burnout for modern women in academic leadership. This book offers concrete steps that faculty, administrators, academic leaders, and most importantly, campuses can take to understand, illuminate, and address burnout for women leaders.”-Dawn Culpepper, University of Maryland “Through powerful narratives and incisive analysis, Frayed exposes the structural and cultural forces that render these roles unsustainable-too often at significant personal cost. This book not only deepens our understanding of leadership in today’s academic landscape, but also issues an urgent call to build more humane, sustainable environments where leaders-and the institutions they serve-can truly thrive.”-Vicki L. Baker, author of Managing Your Academic Career: A Guide to Re-Envision Mid-Career

Rebecca Pope-Ruark is the director of the Office of Faculty Professional Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal and the coeditor of Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff and Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education.

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