Ivy League Professor Gives His Views on the Comic Side of College Life in New Collection of Essays
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Ivy League Professor and Administrator Gives His Views on the Comic Side of College Life in New Collection of Essays
The Dog Ate My Budget by Ross A. Webber is an insider’s account of the perils and pleasures of university life
HADDONFIELD, N.J. -- December 3, 2008 -- The collection of essays, The Dog Ate My Budget: Tales about Teaching and Managing in the Ivy Tower by Wharton School Professor Emeritus Ross A. Webber, is a memoir intended to be a humorous look at the top issues facing university communities today.
In academic leader Webber’s essay collection, he takes readers inside the ivy walls of university culture. Each of his short essays cover topics like student life, alumni, money matters and interactions with the world at large. Webber also includes a cast of famous characters, including Jackie Robinson, Imelda Marcos, Elizabeth Taylor and more. University life can be chaos, Webber suggests, and those in academia must learn to cultivate both a great sense of humor and a tolerance for the ambiguity and the craziness of life inside a complex organization.
In these essays, Webber also includes lessons about teaching and managing universities and offers a personal perspective on such issues as the challenges affecting women faculty, drinking on campus and what it is really like to be a brand new assistant professor at an Ivy League college. Meant to be as humorous as it is educational, The Dog Ate My Homework is Webber’s valentine to the modern university. Says Patricia Sweeting, professor at Teachers' College, Columbia University, “I recommend that this book be provided to all professors at the first faculty meeting in September, but especially to new Ph.D.s surveying the unmapped land of academe.”
For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at webber@wharton.upenn.edu. The Dog Ate My Budget is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Ross A. Webber has been a professor, university vice president, management consultant and business executive. He holds degrees from Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. A professor emeritus of management at the Wharton School, where he formerly served as chairman of the management department, he also served as vice president for development and university relations at the University of Pennsylvania. Until 2006, he was vice chairman of Arcadis NV, a Netherlands-based international engineering firm. A prolific author, Webber is also a painter who has had a recent solo show at the University Club in Philadelphia.
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