The Unity of the Platonic Dialogue: The Cratylus, the Protagoras, the Parmenides

Weingartner, Rudolph H.

Literature & Fiction

Irvington Pub.

Have you ever thought that you might want to write a story but simply couldn't find a way to get started? This book, What's the Story?, just might launch you on the road to writing fiction. It consists of twenty casts of characters - made up of three to seven personages, with each character described in a paragraph. Both the individuals and the casts differ greatly from one another. Most are presented as currently living in various locations across America; others are no longer alive or are set in different parts of the world. No group of characters suggests any particular story, but rather hints inconclusively at numerous possibilities. The given information is designed to prod the imagination without constraining its flight. The witty drawings that accompany the casts should inspire readers to try their hands at fiction and learn the art of writing.

What's the Story?: Try your Hand at Fiction and Learn the Art of Writing

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

University Press of America

Academic administration, argues Rudolph Weingartner, is different from administration or managing in business because of the special character of institutions of higher learning. Colleges and universities are founded to serve certain purposes; they are supported in various ways by governments and private individuals; and, as professional institutions, they have students, among others, as clients to whom they owe education services in ways analogous to the obligations hospitals have to their patients. In this book, Weingartner argues that academic administration is not just another job of managing, but a calling that importantly assists institutions to carry out their missions.

The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration

Philosophy

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration (Issues in Academic Ethics)

Undergraduate Education is an examination of the field balanced by constructive proposals designed to clarify goals and achieve them. Chapters deal with the goals of achieving proficiencies (such as literacy, foreign languages, mathematics, and computers) and conversancies in certain disciplines (such as science, history, global awareness, and art) for all undergraduate students. The author also discusses the complex subject of the undergraduate major, the attainment of intellectual virtues (character traits), and how educators in the classroom, the institution at large, and noncurricular activities can contribute to achieving desired goals.

Undergraduate Education: Goals And Means (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Winner of the 2002 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition. Catalog for (September 22-December 9, 2001 exhibition. 105pp. 60 color plates. Artists include Barlach, Christo, Giacometti, Hepworth, Maillol, Moore, Nadelman, Pepper, Serra, and Shapiro. Provides a unique opportunity for understanding the relationship between two- and three-dimensional art. Essays by Rudolph H. Weingartner, collector and former Dean of Northwestern University's College of Arts and Sciences, and Starr Figura, Assistant Curator, Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Prints by Sculptors: The Rudolph H. and Fannia Weingartner Collection at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

Figura, Starr

Arts & Photography

Mary & Leigh Block Gallery

Mostly About Me: A Path Through Different Worlds

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

1st Book Library

<p>Institutions of higher education are not like corporations: they have multiple goals, not even limited to the central ones of teaching and research, nor are they organized hierarchically. One class of leading inhabitants, faculty members, are a cross between independent contractors and employees; another class, administrators, are a cross between bosses and colleagues. Fitting Form to Function discusses how such institutions are best organized; how decisions are best made at various levels; how administrators and faculty can effectively collaborate in giving shape to a university or college. The book takes up such topics as the office of the president, of the provost, the dean and the chairperson of a department. It considers how committees are formed to function effectively-from a faculty senate to budget and planning committees to those that advise on promotions and others that adjudicate when there are grievances. Fitting Form to Function is written in an informal style. No jargon, no footnotes, but sporting 27 recurring maxims, such as Maxim 1, In academic institutions, the forces of nature are centrifugal; organizational art must be used to create propensities toward coherence; Maxim 17, Boundaries are less likely to create solidarity among those who live within them than they constitute barriers for those residing outside them; and Maxim 23, 'A' people hire (or retain) 'A' people, while 'B' people hire 'C' people.</p>

Fitting Form to Function: A Primer on the Organization of Academic Institutions, 2nd Edition

<p>The way in which the various departments within colleges and universities are organized has a direct impact on their effectiveness. Factors such as reporting structures, what kinds of committees are formed, and how the administration and faculty collaborate to make decisions all play key roles in how well an institution meets its objectives. In a series of succinct chapters, the author examines the functions of each department within an academic institution, then offers explicit recommendations on the types of organizational structures and processes that are best suited to carry them out.</p>

Fitting Form to Function: A Primer on the Organization of Academic Institutions (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

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