University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition
Frances M. Sessa
associate professor of psychology
Book Title
The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming and Other Lessons I Learned from Breast Cancer
Book Description
Midway through my tenure journey I was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. Cancer changes your perspective on many things and how you choose to move forward in life. It also teaches many lessons — most important, how to persevere despite how uncertain the future has suddenly become. While achieving promotion and tenure is accomplishment enough, it is also my validation of having been able to learn what it means to be a "young survivor".
Year
2007