ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that when Asian American women faculty are denied promotion or tenure, assaults on their employment retention can shake the foundations of their sense of identity. It provides Asian female faculty in institutions of higher education with strategies that may become critical to their retention in academia. The chapter presents two cases of Asian female faculty warriors to provide details of specific strategies that were employed as well as to share the psychological stresses that these warriors experienced in their battles for equity in hopes of providing support to those who now or in the future find themselves facing that glass ceiling of the academy. Each of the two cases that are presented includes a summary of the personnel case, a review of the various strategies employed to overturn the promotion denials, and the changes their professional lives have taken fifteen years later.
