Big Man on Campus A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education

Name: Big Man on Campus A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education
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ISBN: 9781416557197

ISBN-10: 1416557199

ISBN-13: 9781416557197

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Tansy Howard Blumer

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An eye-opening and at times controversial insider's look at the current state of higher education in America, from one of the nation's most distinguished and down-to-earth university presidents. At a time when daily news headlines scream of competitive college enrollments, skyrocketing tuition, campus violence, alcohol and drug abuse, and other campus scandals, the former president of The George Washington University tells it like it really is. Educated at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard universities, with a membership in Phi Beta Kappa, more than fifteen honorary doctorates, four books, and numerous published articles, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is one of the leading voices in American higher…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 6/3/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Enrollment Is Life


Young Enough to Still Do Some Damage


Believe in the Unproven


To Get Things Done, Risk Being Wrong


Don't Make Everybody Mad at You at the Same Time


No Tired Bureaucrats Need Apply


The Best Four Years of Your Life Are the Next Four Years of Your Life, Forever


Faculty Engagements


Schmoozing for Dollars


Seize the Day


Descartes Goes into a Bar and Orders a Martini


The Virtues of College Athletics


The Bride Is Too Beautiful


You Can't Anticipate Every Crisis


The Benefits of Being a Twentieth-Century Man


The Ideal University?


Perpetual Institutions, Mortal Leaders


Acknowledgments