Big man on campus
Subtitle: a university president speaks out on higher education
By: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg with Tansy Howard Blumer.
Contributors: Blumer, Tansy Howard.
Edition: 1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781416557197; 9781416557203
Subjects: Education, Higher -- United States
Notes: "A Touchstone book."
Table of contents: title: Enrollment is life; title: Young enough to still do some damage; title: Believe in the unproven; title: To get things done, risk being wrong; title: Don't make everybody mad at you at the same time; title: No tired bureaucrats need apply; title: The best four years of your life are the next four years of your life, forever; title: Faculty engagements; title: Schmoozing for dollars; title: Seize the day; title: Descartes goes into a bar and orders a martini; title: The virtues of college athletics; title: The bride is too beautiful; title: You can't anticipate every crisis; title: The benefits of being a twentieth-century man; title: The ideal university?; title: Perpetual institutions, mortal leaders.