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Big man on campus : a university president speaks out on higher education / Stephen Joel Trachtenberg with Tansy Howard Blumer.

by Trachtenberg, Stephen Joel.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Education, Higher -- United States.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007039377-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007039377-s.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007039377-t.html

9781416557197 (hardcover) :

1416557199 (hardcover) :

9781416557203 (pbk.)

1416557202 (pbk.)

xiii, 266 p. ; 25 cm.

1st Touchstone hardcover ed.

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.

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