Only Leave a Trace
Meditations
Published on 24. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-77212-266-4 (ISBN)
Description
"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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edmonton
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77212-266-4 (9781772122664)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Roger Epp is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He served as founding Dean of the university's Augustana Campus in Camrose from 2004 to 2011. Much of his recent writing has explored what it means to live in the prairie West with a sense of memory, inheritance, and care. He is author of We Are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays (UAP), co-editor of Writing Off the Rural West (UAP), and co-producer of the documentary "The Canadian Clearances" for CBC Radio Ideas. His website is www.rogerepp.com. Rhonda Harder Epp is a painter whose work is held in private and institutional collections. Her work has been shown in galleries across western Canada.
Content
Preface
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
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