95 Spring 2005 • Volume 12, Number 2 Reflecting Back, Looking Forward: Civil Rights and Student Affairs By Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, Kelly Ward and Joy L. Gaston-Gayles Published by National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Washington, DC 2004, 381 Pages Reviewed by Tony W. Cawthon (cawthot@clemson.edu), Associate Professor of Counselor Education and Student Affairs, Clemson University, South Carolina Each year numerous books are published that address multicultural training strategies, theoretical models, and professional development techniques. These books are published with the primary intent of informing student affairs theory and practice. Many of these books come and go, but occasionally one is published which significantly impacts our profession and becomes a classic. Reflecting Back, Looking Forward: Civil Rights and Student Affairs, by Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, Kelly Ward and Joy L. Gaston-Gayles, published in 2004 by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), is one such book. It is one that all student affairs practitioners need to have in their personal and professional libraries. Student affairs professionals pride themselves on their commitment to diversity and multicultural issues. Young (2003) identified five values that frame our profession: individualism, caring, justice, community, and equality. Reflecting Back, Looking Forward: Civil Rights and Student Affairs provides insights from prominent student affairs leaders who share experiences which clearly reflect their commitment to these values. Furthermore, Pope, Reynolds, and Mueller (2004) and Komives and Woodard (2003) identified multicultural competence as one all student affairs professionals should possess. This book reminds us of our core values and the multicultural competencies we all should possess. As the authors note, “the decade between 1960 and 1970 was a time when student affairs leaders were prominent and at the center of campus life, and the role student affairs administrators played in keeping the peace and in maintaining an open dialogue has not been thoroughly explored until this book” (p. vi). Reflecting Back, Looking Forward: Civil Rights and Student Affairs highlights historical commitments by key student affairs practitioners. Their commitments are reflected in first-person narrative stories from 18 student affairs leaders during the civil rights era. With encouragement from Gwen Dungy, NASPA Executive Director, and the recent observance of the 50th anniversary of legal censuring of segregated schools, the authors wrote this book “to preserve the rich history and to acknowledge the role of college students and their complex, partnerships, with student affairs administrators” (p.xii).