One Hundred Semesters : : My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way / / William M. Chace.
In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a tradition...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William G. Bowen Series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. I Knew Exactly What I Was Doing
- 2. Haverford-the Guilty Reminder
- 3. And All Will Be Well
- 4. The Readiness Is All
- 5. Berkeley: Thoroughly Unready
- 6. The Discipline of Literature
- 7. A New Kind of Proletariat
- 8. Going South
- 9. Reading in Jail
- 10. Poetry and Politics
- 11. The Storehouse of Knowledge
- 12. Unfolding the Origami of Teaching
- 13. Tenure and Its Discontents
- 14. Tenure Tested
- 15. Teaching and Its Discontents
- 16. The English Department in Disarray
- 17. Why Join the Administration?
- 18. Exchanging Reflection for Action
- 19. Diversity University
- 20. Marching to a Different Drummer
- 21. The Puzzle of Leadership
- 22. Looking at Success; Looking at Failure
- 23. Learning and Then Leaving
- 24. A School with Aspirations
- 25. Being a Proprietor
- 26. Real Power and Imaginary Power
- 27. "A King of Infinite Space"
- Index