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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Trachtenberg, Stephen Joel. Big man on campus. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008 (OCoLC)649865977 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg; Tansy Howard Blumer |
| ISBN: | 9781416557197 1416557199 9781416557203 1416557202 |
| OCLC Number: | 173299408 |
| Notes: | "A Touchstone book." |
| Description: | xiii, 266 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Enrollment is life -- Young enough to still do some damage -- Believe in the unproven -- To get things done, risk being wrong -- Don't make everybody mad at you at the same time -- No tired bureaucrats need apply -- The best four years of your life are the next four years of your life, forever -- Faculty engagements -- Schmoozing for dollars -- Seize the day -- Descartes goes into a bar and orders a martini -- The virtues of college athletics -- The bride is too beautiful -- You can't anticipate every crisis -- The benefits of being a twentieth-century man -- The ideal university? -- Perpetual institutions, mortal leaders. |
| Other Titles: | University president speaks out on higher education |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Joel Trachtenberg with Tansy Howard Blumer. |
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