Abstract
Selective liberal arts colleges (SLACs) are traditionally undergraduate institutions that focus on providing a broad education in the arts, sciences, and humanities rather than the professional training for the workforce typically available at other institutions of higher education. Despite their comprehensive curriculum, many SLACs have a decades-long commitment to teacher preparation as recognition of the connected nature of K–12 schooling and higher education. This track examines the closure of one such teacher preparation program at an urban liberal arts college and its impact on the faculty who taught in it. Using the critical race theory method of counterstorytelling, I position the closure of this program as a type of death that must be countenanced. I also detail how the process of grief framed my introduction to school abolition and a commitment to fugitive partnership in schools.
Recommended Citation
Terry, L. (2026). So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: A Critical Race Counterstory on Teacher Preparation and Repair. Black Educology Mixtape "Journal", 4(1). Retrieved from https://repository.usfca.edu/be/vol4/iss1/10