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: value: Enrollment is life; value: Young enough to still do some damage; value: Believe in the unproven; value: To get things done, risk being wrong; value: Don't make everybody mad at you at the same time; value: No tired bureaucrats need apply; value: The best four years of your life are the next four years of your life, forever; value: Faculty engagements; value: Schmoozing for dollars; value: Seize the day; value: Descartes goes into a bar and orders a martini; value: The virtues of college athletics; value: The bride is too beautiful; value: You can't anticipate every crisis; value: The benefits of being a twentieth-century man; value: The ideal university?; value: Perpetual institutions, mortal leaders.