100 semesters my adventures as student, professor, and university president, and what I learned along the way /

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Main Author: Chace, William M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • I knew exactly what I was doing
  • Haverford: the guilty reminder
  • And all will be well
  • The readiness is all
  • Berkeley: thoroughly unready
  • The discipline of literature
  • A new kind of proletariat
  • Going south
  • Reading in jail
  • Poetry and politics
  • The storehouse of knowledge
  • Unfolding the origami of teaching
  • Tenure and its discontents
  • Tenure tested
  • Teaching and its discontents
  • The English department in disarray
  • Why join the administration?
  • Exchanging reflection for action
  • Diversity university
  • Marching to a different drummer
  • The puzzle of leadership
  • Looking at success; looking at failure
  • Learning and then leaving
  • A school with aspirations
  • Being a proprietor
  • Real power and imaginary power
  • "A king of infinite space."