Description
Book Synopsis“Make yourself big when you enter a room, when you meet a bear in the woods. Make yourself big. Meet the eyes.” Roger Epp’s poetic meditations about the best, the hardest, the loneliest times of leading a small university campus through significant change are depicted in a series of elegant yet understated prose pieces, alongside images by his life partner, Rhonda Harder Epp. Taking a candid look at the many challenges such a position brings, Roger Epp humanizes, scrutinizes, and upholds the integrity of academic administrative work. Only Leave a Trace will resonate with those who work in universities, hold leadership roles in them, or care about the connections between higher education, students, and place.
Trade Review#2 on Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, April 30, 2017
Table of ContentsPreface Set on a Wall 1 -Only Leave a Trace -Hard Times -The Teacher of Machiavelli -Vikingskipshuset, Oslo -Make Yourself Big Under -If Students Ask -Reciprocity -Easter Weekend -Years of Promises to See this Day -Round Dance -Dog Sled -Those Who Build Bridges -While Stephen Lewis Sleeps Over -Highway Time -A Life as Thin as Paper -Straw-Men and Politicians -Six Years, No Accidents -A Curator of Tears -Another Year, And No Disaster -Job Description -This is the Way the World Will End or, How a Dean Thinks Around 1 -Someplace, Not No-Place -Saturday Morning at the Co-op -Doctor Fowler -Reading University -Boundaries -First Things, And How Wine Was Served on Campus -Resource Curse Around 2 -On Sunday They Will Walk -Leave a Message at the Tone -The Under-Painting -A Wednesday Night in Daysland -Generation Gap -Brainstorm -Return to Aberystwyth -Turning 50 Through -SE 09 31 06 Set on a Wall 2 -Numbering the Days -The Old Man in Winter -Iron Cage -The Image of a Hundred Years -Reminders -Last Night in June Notes Acknowledgements
