R. Eric Platt is associate professor of higher and adult education and chair of the Department of Leadership at the University of Memphis. He is author of Sacrifice and Survival: Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South and Educating the Sons of Sugar: Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana.
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