Peril and Promise
- Author Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Narrator Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Publisher Hachette Audio
- Publish Date 2 September 2025
- Run Time 12 hours and 3 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies and policy, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion, Higher education, tertiary education.
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What to expect
A former college president and bestselling author offers leadership lessons for today’s troubled campuses.
“Peril and Promise is both a practical guide and a moral compass, urging those in leadership roles to lead not from fear but from purpose.” ―Forbes
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 Colleges, Beverly Daniel Tatum celebrates the power of leadership to make higher education a force for good. Alongside an unflinching look at the financial challenges, political attacks, and social problems that besiege today’s college campuses, she offers real-life leadership examples of institutions that have overcome the steepest odds and produced real transformation in ideas, student bodies, and society at large.
At once conversational and contemplative, Peril and Promise reckons with the complexities of higher education in our time, while exhorting future leaders to take up the mantle and chart a path forward for our campuses and country.
Critics Review
“A consummate educator, Beverly Tatum has a talent for making the complex clear and engaging her audience with compelling examples. In Peril and Promise, she brings the challenges—and the opportunities—facing higher education together in a compelling narrative that will both inform and inspire her readers. Highly recommended!”
—Arne Duncan, Managing Partner, ChicagoCRED and former U.S. Secretary of Education| Author | Beverly Daniel Tatum |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Beverly Daniel Tatum |
| Duration | 12 hours and 3 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781668652220 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Hachette Audio |
| Genre | Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies and policy, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion, Higher education, tertiary education |
| Availability | US |
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