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  • Getting a good start
  • The promise of a new position
  • Communicating with your supervisor
  • Getting around
  • Offering inspiration and direction
  • Where you stand is where you sit
  • How does one happen to become a provost?
  • The spirits of our teachers live in our souls
  • Promoting the concept of the integrated scholar
  • Academic intrapreneurs
  • Diversity-a living mosaic
  • Ties that bind
  • Understanding the joys, challenges, and failures of professional life
  • Tragedies: preparedness and responses
  • Guidance to various academic administrators and support professionals
  • Why a dean?
  • Why a chair or head?
  • Why a director?
  • Why administrative support professionals?
  • Strategic planning and budgeting
  • College- and university-wide planning and development
  • Assessments and evaluations
  • Assessments and accreditation
  • Evaluations of personnel
  • Policies and partnerships
  • Survey of ethics-based policies in higher education
  • Conflicts of interest and commitment
  • Multi-institutional academic consortia and related arrangements
  • Partnerships with academic, corporate, government, and non-government organizations
  • International outreach
  • Inclement weather.