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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173299408 Title: Big man on campus : a university president speaks out on higher education Author: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg; Tansy Howard Blumer Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9781416557197 1416557199 9781416557203 1416557202 OCLC:173299408

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Big man on campus : a university president speaks out on higher education

Author:	Stephen Joel Trachtenberg; Tansy Howard Blumer
Publisher:	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st Touchstone hardcover edView all editions and formats
Summary:	A former president of George Washington University shares his insight into the challenges of running a university, in a guide for group leaders and parents of college students that calls for a greater prioritizing of the country's higher educational interests.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Trachtenberg, Stephen Joel. Big man on campus. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008 (OCoLC)649865977
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Stephen Joel Trachtenberg; Tansy Howard Blumer Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781416557197 1416557199 9781416557203 1416557202
OCLC Number:	173299408
Notes:	"A Touchstone book."
Description:	xiii, 266 p. ; 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.
Responsibility:	Stephen Joel Trachtenberg with Tansy Howard Blumer.
More information:	Publisher description Sample text Table of contents only

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