Truth Without Tears: African American Women Deans Share Lessons in Leadership

Truth Without Tears is a timely and insightful portrait of Black women leaders in American colleges and universities. Carolyn R. Hodges and Olga M. Welch are former deans who draw extensively on their experience as African American women to account for both the challenges and opportunities facing women of color in educational leadership positions.

Hodges and Welch deftly combine autobiography with more general information and observations to fashion an interesting and helpful book about hig...