| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 354 pages) |
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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." |
| Summary |
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 traditionally African-American college in Alabama, in the 1960s, to his days as a professor at Stanford and his appointment as president of two very different institutions--Wesleyan University and Emory University. Chace takes us with him through his decades in education--his expulsion from |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chace, William M.
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| SUBJECT |
Chace, William M. fast |
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Education, Higher -- United States.
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Universities and colleges -- United States.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
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Education, Higher
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Universities and colleges
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400827305 |
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1400827302 |
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