100 semesters: my adventures as student, professor, and university president, and what i learned along the way

Author: William M. Chance

This lively memoir about Bill Chance's career in academia proved to be an interesting, albeit a bit long, read. Chance chronicles his life from his undergrad days at tiny Haverford College, to his time as president of Emory University. Along the way he is a professor, administrator and astute observer of the university system. His experiences occur over a great period of change within academic institutions: the last 50 years. Many of his laments regard the new importance of school marketing and athletics. It is clear that he loves the institutions that we call universities, but he is also honest about their faults. It was a pretty good book - 3 Stars out of 5.