The View from the Helm: Leading the American University during an Era of ChangeUniversity of Michigan Press, 2009 M03 25 - 424 pages Widely regarded as one of the most active and publicly engaged university presidents in modern academia, Duderstadt—who led the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996—presided 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 Helm extracts 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. |
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... opportunities of their eras. With this historical background, the book then moves in chapter 2 to discuss the various paths to a university presidency, drawn heav- ily from my personal experience and later roles as counsel and confidant ...
... opportunity to serve in the presidency of the University of Michigan as not only a calling of great responsibility but a privilege of leadership and service on behalf of a truly remarkable institution. It is my hope that this book will ...
... opportunity, depending heavily on their leadership, and attract- ing some truly remarkable academic leaders. And, of course, the progress achieved by a university of the size and complexity of the University of Michigan depends on the ...
... opportunity as institutional decisions, rather than succumbing to public or political pressures. This unrelenting ... opportunities to develop talent and character to the fullest. He portrayed the state university as the bulwark against ...
... opportunity all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in landmark cases in 2003. In more contemporary terms, it seems clear that an important facet of the institutional saga of the University of Michigan would be its achievement of ...