Thinking out loud
By: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.
Series: American Council on Education/Oryx Press series on higher education
Publisher: Oryx Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Phoenix
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: George Washington University.; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Notes: Addresses and essays.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Teaching effectiveness and the need for academic change; title: Searching for perspective in a de-controlled world; title: Short takes I; title: Lessons from Humanities 101; title: Productivity and the academic "business"; title: Short takes II; title: Why it matters how we cut the cake; title: The importance of ancient history; title: The death and rebirth of empathy; title: Short takes III; title: The "outsider insider" experience; title: GW at 175: the progress of an adaptive university; title: A vision for the reform of higher education; title: Short takes IV; title: The consequences of "thinking marketability"; title: What I learned from my son who just graduated from Columbia; title: The power in Washington comes from a surprising source!; title: Notes and credits.