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The work of the university /
From the vantage point of the president's office, this is an inspiring view of the challenges and responsibilities of a great university. This collection of speeches and essays, published on the occasion of Richard Levin's tenth anniversary as president of Yale University, reflects both th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2003]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From the beginning
- Calm seas, auspicious gales
- Beyond the ivy walls: our university in the wider world
- The purpose of a college education
- On liberal education
- The task of self-discovery
- A serious place
- Preparing for a new millennium
- Discovery
- Westward ho!
- The spirit of adventure
- Yale time
- Beginnings
- Welcome to Yale
- The university's role in society
- Universities and our common wealth
- The American university as an engine of economic growth
- Universities as urban citizens
- The global university
- The graduate's role in society
- Education for self and for others
- On controversy
- Taking the next step
- The task of citizenship
- Beyond community service: the nation and the wider world
- Reflections on revolution
- China on my mind
- Thinking about September 11
- Building a better Yale
- Yale's fourth century
- Yale at 300
- Honoring schools, teachers, and traditions
- An embryonic democracy
- A salute to Princeton
- Remembering Oxford
- Chasing after society
- James Tobin, scholar-hero
- A devoted mentor
- Shimon Peres
- Blessed is the match
- Reflections on the American economy
- Can America compete in world markets?: an unconventional view of the 1980s
- Democracy and the market.