100 semesters [electronic resource] : my adventures as student, professor, and university president, and what I learned along the way / William M. Chace

Author:: Chace, William M.
Additional Titles:: One hundred semesters
Published:: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
Physical Description:: viii, 354 p. ; 25 cm.

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Contents:

I knew exactly what I was doing -- Haverford: the guilty reminder -- And all will be well -- The readiness is all -- Berkeley: thoroughly unready -- The discipline of literature -- A new kind of proletariat -- Going south -- Reading in jail -- Poetry and politics -- The storehouse of knowledge -- Unfolding the origami of teaching -- Tenure and its discontents -- Tenure tested -- Teaching and its discontents -- The English department in disarray -- Why join the administration? -- Exchanging reflection for action -- Diversity university -- Marching to a different drummer -- The puzzle of leadership -- Looking at success; looking at failure -- Learning and then leaving -- A school with aspirations -- Being a proprietor -- Real power and imaginary power -- "A king of infinite space."

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0691127255 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691127255 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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