Ever the Leader : : Selected Writings, 1995-2016 / / William G. Bowen; ed. by Kevin M. Guthrie.
Ever the Leader gathers together selected speeches and writings from one of the great scholars and commentators of higher education. William G. Bowen's career at Princeton University-from economics professor to provost to a sixteen-year tenure as president-was marked by extraordinary accomplish...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1: UNIVERSITY VALUES
- At a Slight Angle to the Universe: The University in a Digitized, Commercialized Age
- The Two Faces of Wealth
- Enduring Values Openness and Mutual Respect
- Demanding Universities to Divest is Often Bad Policy
- Commentary: Scott Walker's Test of Academic Freedom
- CHAPTER 2: EXTENDING OPPORTUNITY
- Life on the River: Talking with Americans about Race-Sensitive College Admissions
- Extending Opportunity "What Is to be Done?"
- Appalachian College Association
- Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities
- CHAPTER 3: ATHLETICS, ADMISSIONS, AND CAMPUS CULTURE
- Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values
- Why You Came
- Playing Their Way In
- Untie the Knot Binding College Sports and Educational Values
- CHAPTER 4: TECHNOLOGY AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
- JSTOR and the Economics of Scholarly Communication
- Funding the Library of the Future: Harvesting Productivity Gains as a Partial Answer
- MIT Opencourseware Celebration
- CHAPTER 5: TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND OPPORTUNITY
- Academia Online: Musings (Some Unconventional)
- "New Times Always, Old Time we Cannot Keep"
- Technology: Its Potential Impact on the National Need to Improve Educational Outcomes and Control Costs
- Issues Facing Major Research Universities at a Time of Stress and Opportunity
- CHAPTER 6: PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP
- Too Soon to Be Tired
- Remarks at Memorial Service for Tony Maruca
- In Praise of President Chuck Vest
- Remarks at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dinner in Honor of Hanna Holborn Gray
- Andrew J. Goodpaster 80th Birthday Celebration
- A Gentle Giant a Gathering in Honor of Nicholas Katzenbach
- William J. Baumol 90th Birthday Celebration
- Appendix: A Selected List of Publications
- Afterword: William G. Bowen
- Index