100 semesters

Chace, William M.

100 semesters my adventures as student, professor, and university president, and what I learned along the way / [electronic resource] : One hundred semesters William M. Chace. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. - viii, 354 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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."


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Chace, William M.


Education, Higher--United States.
Universities and colleges--United States.


Electronic books.

LA227.3 / .C455 2006eb

378.73