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9780472115907

The View from the Helm

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  • ISBN13:

    9780472115907

  • ISBN10:

    0472115901

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-04-25
  • Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
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Summary

Widely regarded as one of the most active and publicly engaged university presidents in modern academia, Duderstadtwho led the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996presided over a period of enormous change, not only for his institution, but for universities across the country. His presidency was a time of growth and conflict: of sweeping new affirmative-action and equal-opportunity programs, significant financial expansion, and reenergized student activism on issues from apartheid to codes of student conduct. Under James Duderstadt's stewardship, Michigan reaffirmed its reputation as a trailblazer among universities. Part memoir, part history, part commentary,The View from the Helmextracts general lessons from his experiences at the forefront of change in higher education, offering current and future administrators a primer on academic leadership and venturing bold ideas on how higher education should be steered into the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

The leaders and bestp. 3
The path to the presidencyp. 39
The presidential searchp. 71
Presidential leadershipp. 105
Executive leadershipp. 132
Academic leadershipp. 162
Political leadershipp. 191
Moral leadershipp. 225
Strategic leadershipp. 260
Life as a university presidentp. 285
Tilting with windmillsp. 309
The endgamep. 338
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