Academia in Conflict: Engaging Stakeholders through Transformational Crisis Communication

Abstract

Part I Introduction -- Transformational Crisis Communication and the Mission of Academia -- Part II Exploring Academic Conflict in International Contexts -- Humanities' Battlefronts: A Discursive "Is the Enemy of My Enemy My Friend?" -- Campus Hate Crimes During the Trump Era: The Rhetoric of Conflict During the 2017 Unite the Right Rally at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville -- Part III Responding Ethically to Stakeholder Activism -- Mace, Memes, and Myopic Management: The University of California, Davis Pepper-Spray Scandal as a Transformational Crisis Communication Case Study -- Signals of Solidarity: Communication in Collective Action at Kennesaw State University -- Complaint, Free Speech, and "Inclusive" Campus Culture: One Transgender Student's Experience.