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How university leaders' empowering approach to resiliency was tested by the dual crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial unrest.In 2020, some higher education leaders successfully navigated the unprecedented challenges the year presented and emerged as resilient agents of change in their academic communities. Freeman A. Hrabowski III was one of many leaders who followed the science during the pandemic and followed his heart in the fight for racial justice, even though the science was often playing catch-up with the virus, and campuses were playing catch-up on the history of race in our country. This precarious position often left higher education leaders in the disquieting position of making decisions with only partial or changing information. Drawing from lessons learned in real scenarios, the authors provide practical recommendations for empowering colleagues, cultivating resilience and courage, and sustaining purpose and inclusion within institutions. Building on Hrabowski's previous book The Empowered University, The Resilient University offers university leaders invaluable insight into how the qualities of openness, resilience, courage, passion, and hope can be harnessed in times of crisis to guide their institutions to thrive.

Last March, we traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, for a first round game in the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. On tap that evening was a game between No. 1 seed University of Virginia and No. 16 seed University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). As is widely known, the unimaginable happened that evening when our beloved UMBC Retrievers beat the UVA Cavaliers. The upset victory became a widely celebrated sensation. Something else, once almost as unimaginable, also happened that evening that is not as widely known and celebrated, but should be. This example of progress in academic diversity is what we need to see more of if the United States wants to develop and sustain the robust, diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce that draws on talent of all backgrounds and allows the nation to compete in today's science- and technology-driven global economy. We need to see more like this because the nation is not yet drawing on all its talent.

Away from the spotlight on the recent presidential election and transition, the United States quietly reached a crossroads crucial to the nation's future, yet hardly discussed by the national candidates. At this crossroads the nation must decide whether or not it will take the path leading to a science and technology talent pool well-developed in quality and quantity that draws from people throughout our population. It is only by tapping all of that talent pool that the country will succeed in realizing the economic, security, and health goals the American people prize. The only way to achieve that goal is to deliberately choose the path of inclusive excellence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in colleges and universities to provide the graduates needed by private, public, and nonprofit employers to sustain the economy and meet national goals. The National Academies committee was not surprised to discover, given the findings above, that most underrepresented minority students left STEM majors before completing a college degree.