100 semesters : my adventures as student, professor, and university president, and what I learned along the way
In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a traditionally African-American college in Alabama, in the 1960s, to his days as a professor at Stanford and his appointment as president of two very different institutions--Wesleyan University and Emory University. Chace takes us with him through his decades in education--his expulsion from college, his boredom and confusion as a graduate student during the Free Speech movement at Berkeley, and his involvement in three contentious cases at Stanford: on tenure, curriculum, and academic freedom. When readers follow Chace on his trip to jail after he joins Stillman students in a civil rights protest, it is clear that the ideas he presents are born of experience, not preached from an ivory tower
Print Book, English, ©2006
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2006
Nonfiction
viii, 354 pages ; 25 cm
9780691127255, 0691127255
62896448
I knew exactly what I was doing
Haverford: the guilty reminder
And all will be well
The readiness is all
Berkeley: thoroughly unready
The discipline of literature
A new kind of proletariat
Going south
Reading in jail
Poetry and politics
The storehouse of knowledge
Unfolding the origami of teaching
Tenure and its discontents
Tenure tested
Teaching and its discontents
The English department in disarray
Why join the administration?
Exchanging reflection for action
Diversity university
Marching to a different drummer
The puzzle of leadership
Looking at success; looking at failure
Learning and then leaving
A school with aspirations
Being a proprietor
Real power and imaginary power
"A king of infinite space."