A Light in the Tower Audiobook

With evocative storytelling and incisive research Katie Rose Guest Pryal brings a new eye to the mental health crisis that higher education has faced for decades Written from the perspective of a bipolarautistic professor A Light in the Tower is both a bracing account of the mental health crisis in higher education and a passionate and informed proposal for how to teach with mental health in mind

Pryal contends that higher educations mental health crisis is the result of longterm systemic problems in education that demand nothing short of a revolution She examines the anxiety that plagues campuses as a result of exploited and overworked contingent faculty and students the shock events like COVID19 and campus shootings that traumatize communities the systemic and institutional burnout that affects higher education at every level and the marketdriven culture of toxic overwork These are largescale problems that need largescale solutions Addressing the stigma that haunts mental disability on campus the ableism that hounds our teaching and the cascade of mental health struggles that far too many faculty and students face Pryal provides straightforward solutions to these complex challenges