
MOMENTS OF CLARITY: REFLECTIONS ON BURNOUT and RESILIENCE IN HIGHER ED My First Lesson in Resilience C. Jenise Williamson Once a student let me know that I had made a mistake in publishing his poems in the campus literary magazine. He said he had retracted the submissions and submitted something else to take their place. I couldn’t recall having had that conversation. The presumption of the student that his work should be immediately accepted was something I didn’t want to get into, so I did as he asked. I pondered the convenience of electronic documents making it an easy fix and thanked a generous colleague who made the edits for me. But afterward, when thinking of it all and the flurry of emails that transpired around it, I told myself over and over that I was unprofessional. But was I really? We all make mistakes on the job. For some reason, though, making mistakes in academia seems worse than making them anywhere else. Here’s why. As academics, w...