Creative Tensions

In an era when higher education is embattled, Brian Rosenberg, president of Macalester College, is among its greatest champions and thought leaders.In this collection of impassioned essays and speeches, Rosenberg makes the case for the importance of the liberal arts college and its natural outcome, a civil society.Rosenberg also addresses a trio of challenges confronting colleges and their administrators today: fund-raising and finance, government and planning, and the question of whether to take a stand on social and political issues.Always intelligent, consistently thoughtful, and often humorous, Creative Tensions is required reading for anyone concerned about the current state of higher education.