ABSTRACT
Saint Louis University’s no-confidence movement brought people together across disciplinary boundaries and provided a context in which participants drew on their various types of expertise in unusually practical ways. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of former participants in that movement to analyze various aspects of faculty protest through the lenses of their various disciplines. This first chapter briefly explains the issues underpinning SLU’s crisis and describes the chapters to follow. The book is divided into two main sections. The first examines “power” – the institutional structures that contributed to conflict and made a less convulsive resolution unlikely. The second focuses on “protest” – the strategies and tactics faculty and students used to confront those power structures. The discussion in this chapter follows the same format.
