From Morningside Heights to Wisconsin: The Education of a Dean

The book describes the development of the author from elementary education to a career as Dean and Provost. It focuses on the changes that occurred through a lifetime of education. Throughout, the book uses the evolution of the thoughts and actions of the author to describe the nature and strengths of liberal education. It describes the growing influence on the author’s thinking of ideas about liberal learning and the work of academic administration. The book includes the challenges, difficulties, and accomplishments of the author to illustrate the sometime humorous but always serious life of a faculty member and academic administrator. Read more