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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822251703321

Autore

London Herbert I

Titolo

Diary of a dean / / Herbert I. London

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Hamilton Books, 2010

ISBN

1-282-71352-3

9786612713521

0-7618-5172-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (79 p.)

Disciplina

378.0092

813/.6

Soggetti

Deans (Education)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Thinking about America from Down Under -- Chapter Two -- How a Commencement Changed My Life -- Chapter Three -- Running to Class -- Chapter Four -- Underground Notes from a Campus Ombudsman -- Chapter Five -- What a Dean Learns from His Mother -- Chapter Six -- What Really Matters -- Chapter Seven -- Letter to a Student -- Chapter Eight -- The Zeitgeist Rings My Home Number -- Chapter Nine -- Challenging the Academic Orthodoxy -- Chapter Ten -- The Tenure Trap -- Chapter Eleven -- Academic Freedom and Free Speech -- Chapter Twelve -- The Hudson Institute as a University in Absentia -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a memoir of Herbert London's years at New York University. It follows his personal path from professor and ombudsman to dean of a new 'experimental' college. For anyone eager to learn about the evolution of higher education in the last few decades, this book is indispensable reading.