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Author Chace, William M.

Title 100 semesters [electronic resource] : my adventures as student, professor, and university president, and what I learned along the way / William M. Chace.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

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Description viii, 354 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Chace, William M.
Education, Higher -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title One hundred semesters
ISBN 0691127255 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691127255 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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