This is an entertaining and insightful read for anyone who wants to get a glimpse of how a large university functions, as seen through the eyes of an ultimate "insider."
This is an entertaining and insightful read for anyone who wants to get a glimpse of how a large university functions, as seen through the eyes of an ultimate "insider."
Larry A. Nielsen is Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University. D.H. DeHayes is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
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Acknowledgments Foreword. D. H. DeHayes Preface Part One. 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 Part Two. 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 Part Three. 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 Part Four. 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 Part Five. 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 Part Six. 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 Part Seven. People Matter Most 38.Populus 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 Lessons About People Mattering Most Part Eight. Experience Is a Great Teacher 44.First Reports From 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 Part Nine. 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 Part Ten. 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 Love Again Lessons About Being the Ex-Provost Part Eleven. 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 After Being Provost? Lessons From the Literature Part Twelve. So You Want to Be a Provost 63.A Citizen of the University 64.A Student of the University 65.One of the Guys References Index
Acknowledgments Foreword. D. H. DeHayes Preface Part One. 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 Part Two. 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 Part Three. 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 Part Four. 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 Part Five. 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 Part Six. 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 Part Seven. People Matter Most 38.Populus 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 Lessons About People Mattering Most Part Eight. Experience Is a Great Teacher 44.First Reports From 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 Part Nine. 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 Part Ten. 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 Love Again Lessons About Being the Ex-Provost Part Eleven. 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 After Being Provost? Lessons From the Literature Part Twelve. So You Want to Be a Provost 63.A Citizen of the University 64.A Student of the University 65.One of the Guys References Index
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