100 Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way.100 Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities Press, 2006; 368 pp; $24.95; www.purpress.princeton.edu BY THE END OF THE 1989-90 ACADEMIC year, his second as president of Wesleyan University Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1831. There are special cooperative study programs with the California Institute of Technology and the engineering department of Columbia Univ. (Conn.), William Chace had dealt with the firebombing Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire from a incendiary device, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs. of his office, an increasingly negative image of the university in the press, and the death of a student (not to mention Hurricane Hugo's visit to Chace's inauguration ceremony). "The words of one of Wesleyan's trustees, Gerald Baliles, echoed in my mind," Chace writes in his book. "When he served as the governor of Virginia The Governor of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term. The position is currently held by Democrat Tim Kaine. Qualifications he Learned that the single most important feature of administrative Life was the 'unexpected, the things you can't control, the accidents" He was right." That message lies at the heart of 100 Semesters. The book takes readers through Chace's life in higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. , from the time he was an undergraduate at Haverford College (Pa.) to his graduate studies at UC, Berkeley, his teaching days at Stillman College (Ala.) and Stanford University (Calif.), and his presidencies at Wesleyan and Emory University (Ga.). Throughout his work Chace weaves great respect for IHEs with a dose of anxiety about their current state; he also exhibits a strong belief in the importance of faculty. 100 Semesters works well thanks to the author's engaging narrative and thoughtful insights. |
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