Higher ground
Subtitle: ethics and leadership in the modern university
By: Nannerl O. Keohane.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Administration; Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
Description: "Nannerl O. Keohane, a political theorist who served as president of Wellesley College and Duke University, has firsthand knowledge of the challenges facing modern universities: rising costs, the temptations of "corporatization," consumerist students, nomadic faculty members, and a bewildering wave of new technologies. Her views on these issues and on the role and future of higher education are captured in Higher Ground, a collection of speeches and essays that she wrote over a twenty-year period."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Articles and speeches; title: Collaboration and leadership: are they in conflict?; title: The university in the twenty-first century; title: The mission of the research university; title: Pro bono publico: institutional leadership and the public good; title: Moral education in the modern university; title: More power to the president?; title: The American campus: from colonial seminary to global multiversity; title: Ace address: the atwell lecture; title: The liberal arts and the role of lite higher education; title: "You say you want a revolution?" well; title: When should a college president use the bully pulpit?; title: Are we there yet?; title: Duke university addresses; title: Opening convocation address; title: Inaugural address; title: The university of the future; title: Address to the faculty 2001; title: Founders' day address; title: Address to the faculty 2003; title: Notes; title: Index.