| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxix, 372 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-349) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. I: The Accidental Provost -- 1. I loved my job -- 2. It was destiny -- 3. Who could love being an administrator? -- 4. From sublime to ridiculous -- 5. Realizing possibilities -- -- Pt. II: Mr. Provost -- 6. What is a Provost, anyhow? -- 7. Being number two -- 8. The Provost is not a Dean -- 9. The Provost's perfect day -- 10. The university's stay-at-home parent -- 11. Just a little famous: lessons about being Mr. Provost -- -- PT. III: Money is Way Ahead of Whatever is in Second Place -- 12. A textbook example -- 13. The Provost's best friend -- 14. We have more money than we think we do -- 15. We have all the money we need -- 16. The strategic doorstop -- 17. The Provost ain't got no alumni: lessons about money -- -- Pt. IV: Academics 'R' Us -- 18. Academics 'r' us -- or 'r' it? -- 19. Strategy 'r' us, too -- 20. Athletes are students, too -- 21. Yin, yang, and you -- 22. Speaking of students -- 23. In the service of academics -- 24. Graduation day: lessons about academics -- -- Pt. V: Facilities and Other Evils -- 25. Space, the final frontier -- 26. Space assignments don't die, they just fossilize -- 27. New space is just on its way to becoming old space -- 28. The worst two-word phrase in the university vocabulary -- 29. Private business wouldn't do it this way -- 30. Snow days -- 31. How the Provost froze Christmas: lessons about facilities and other evils -- -- Pt. VI: Faculty -- 32. Administrators love faculty, really -- 33. Faculty are the capital of the university -- 34. Where does faculty leave off and Provost begin? -- 35. Faculty bark; the Provost bites -- 36. To tenure or not to tenure -- 37. There's no business like the know business: lessons about faculty -- -- Pt. VII: People Matter Most -- 38. Polulus plurimus maximus es -- 39. Showing up is 95% of life -- 40. Transparency is alive, but privacy is dead -- 41. Not everyone is like me -- 42. Leave your phone at the door -- 43. In the presence of greatness: lesson about people mattering most -- -- Pt. VIII: Experience is a Great Teacher -- 44. First reports for the front -- 45. What is a Department Head, anyway? -- 46. Being a Dean helps -- 47. It's a clingy environment -- 48. Dancing with a gorilla -- 49. The gorilla that got me -- 50. What I learned from the dancing gorilla: lessons from experience -- -- Pt. IX: Who Owns the University? -- 51. No one could do a better job than you -- 52. A messy bottom line -- 53. The faculty's property interest -- 54. The Provost's job: lessons about who owns the university -- -- Pt. X: Being the Ex -- 55. Starting over -- 56. The half-life of an ex-Provost -- 57. We don't know anything-and we don't really care -- 58. Learning to lvoe again: lessons about being the ex-Provost -- -- Pt. XI: The Literature of the Provost -- 59. What is a Provost? -- 60. Who gets to be a Provost? -- 61. How do Provosts spend their time? -- 62. Is there life about being Provost?: lessons from the literature -- -- Pt. XII: So You Want to Be a Provost -- 63. A citizen of the university -- 64. A student of the university -- 65. One of the guys |
| Subject |
College administrators -- United States.
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College administrators. |
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United States. |
| ISBN |
9781579229696 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1579229697 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781579229719 (library networkable e-edition) |
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9781579229726 (consumer e-edition) |
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1579229700 |
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9781579229702 |
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