Reflections on Higher Education

Introduction -- The New Millennium -- The United States In The 21st Century -- The Great Tradition Is A Great Bag Of Tricks -- The New Entrepreneurial University -- The New Millennium -- Managing In Higher Education -- Great Expectations: Expanding Demands On The Campus Leader -- Leadership And Management -- Looking Down, Around, And Ahead: Thoughts On The Management Of Higher Education -- External Expectations For Campus Leaders -- Treating American Mood Swings -- New Ways Of Thinking -- Going Bipolar In The Groves Of Academe -- When Your Culture Operates On Your Brain -- Town And Gown: A Capital Case -- The Education Society And The Public Schools -- Afterthoughts -- About The Author. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. This collection of speeches and essays, written between 1998 and 2001, addresses major issues relating to higher education and the leadership and administration of its institutions. The role of (and need for) education in the United States, the challenges facing university administrators, cultural influences, town-and-gown relations, and the public schools are all discussed. Pecuniary concerns are openly foregrounded. Trachtenburg is president of George Washington University. The book has no index or bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)