Only Leave a Trace

Meditations

By Roger Epp
Illustrated by Rhonda Harder Epp
Categories: Education
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Paperback : 9781772122664, 96 pages, March 2017
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781772123128, 80 pages, April 2017
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9781772123135, 80 pages, April 2017
Ebook (PDF) : 9781772123142, 80 pages, April 2017

Table of contents

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

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.

Reviews

#2 on Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, April 30, 2017