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**Abstract** "Was making full professor a Pyrrhic victory?" is the question which guides this reflective personal narrative on attaining the rank of Full Professor, the first and only Black woman full professor in a STEM discipline at Florida A&M University (FAMU), a large Historically Black College and University (HBCU). In assessing the costs, the author expresses concrete experience of institutional trauma, academic betrayal, burnout, and structural violence along with values, motivations involved in persisting on her journey. The author is also the principal investigator of an NSF ADVANCE award (EES-1824267) and is directly involved with leading institutional transformation efforts.
Marcia Allen Owens (Thu,) studied this question.