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The best case for freedom is written on North Korean faces

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Jan 5, 2011, 6:18 pm
Why do I (and so many other people) find picture after picture of Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things so interesting? Without speaking for others, I'll admit I'm worried. Maybe the Dear Leader is onto something about human nature. The interesting thing is not what Kim Jong-Il is saying with his face, but...
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How could we have helped this departing professor?

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Jan 5, 2011, 4:28 pm
There is another side to this story we do not know. An English professor enumerates the reasons she is leaving the professoriate. Many of her reasons circle around the idea of a broken system. We do not know who she is or anything about her institution or her experience. We do know that no one sid...
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No Limits

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Jan 4, 2011, 9:00 am
G.T. "Buck" Smith is the gold standard for relationship-based fundraising. For all practical purposes he's the inventor of modern major gifts fundraising, which is built around donors' relationships with the institution. Since 1977 he's brought that same skill to the president's office. This profil...
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Reading People with Bad Reputations

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Dec 21, 2010, 6:21 pm
Yesterday I referred to a blog post by Michael Jinkins. It occurred to me afterward that it's interesting that he's the only person I know who has expressed a deep interest in a figure even more problematic than my friend Talleyrand. Michael has built much of his academic career on an effort to reha...
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Wisdom about the Presidency

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Dec 21, 2010, 1:38 am
There is much wisdom from Michael Jinkins here. The new president of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary is starting his presidency the way a wise minister starts a new pastorate, by visiting every spare minute: The first goal I set after becoming president of Louisville Seminary was to vi...
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Synchronicity

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Jun 23, 2010, 7:30 pm
Wendell Berry is a very important figure in my intellectual development. He gave quite a few hours of his life, which he was far from owing me, to the formation of my young mind in the late 1980s. I am deeply grateful. There are few people I respect and admire as much. This wonderful gift notwithsta...
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The donor database is the key to a good night's sleep

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - May 12, 2010, 11:42 am
In a previous life, I was a pastor. Early on, a wise older minister let me know that, contrary to the reigning piety, it was irresponsible for a minister not to know who gave and how much. "You're responsible for this boat, and you've got to know who's floating it." Among other things, it makes it ...
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Cost Cutting and Faculty Unhappiness

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - May 11, 2010, 8:34 am
I know nothing about the situation with cost cutting and faculty unhappiness at Wells College that I didn't read in this article. It may be that this faculty is completely in the right and the president is completely in the wrong. But I doubt it. I've seen some situations that were outwardly similar...
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An Anti-Naming Opportunity

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Apr 21, 2010, 8:57 am
Alumni of the University of Alberta have given $20.5-million to avoid making their business school a corporate naming opportunity. Good for them. I am all for naming opportunities. People like to be recognized for their gifts. We can bemoan this as some kind of moral failing, but you can't build bu...
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Why Talleyrand?

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Apr 20, 2010, 4:01 pm
For the second time I've been asked what it is about M. de Talleyrand I find attractive, so that I blog under his name. It’s a little surprising given Talleyrand’s reputation that the question isn’t asked more often. But perhaps not so many people know who he was anymore. A little of it is in ...
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Controversy at Erskine College and Seminary

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Apr 7, 2010, 9:03 pm
I am looking forward to a time when I can write seriously and in public about this. I work at Erskine and have seen much that isn't reported. It has been a roller coaster ride. The human drama of the whole ordeal has been fascinating. It will be even more fascinating before it's over. One day it wil...
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Fewer than Ten Influential Books

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Mar 24, 2010, 1:06 pm
Bloggers are writing about their ten most influential books, I hear. I don’t know why. There may be at least a little interest in proving our intellectual bona fides: "I'm the sort of person who is capable of being changed by a book." Well, I am whether I blog about it or not, and whether anyone c...
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Is High Division 1 Basketball Really This White?

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Jan 7, 2010, 1:13 pm
This is the Duke University basketball team picture for the current season. It is or ought to be self explanatory. I do not understand how an institution in North Carolina — or anywhere in America — gets away with this. For contrast, here is the official photograph of the current basketball team...
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Good Question

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Nov 23, 2009, 12:50 pm
The accrediting team evaluating one of our extension sites for degree-granting status asked me, "How do you relate your development function to student learning outcomes?" You mean other than finding people who love to give scholarships so students can get into the path of some learning outcomes to ...
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Fundraising with African-American Alumni Is Good Fundraising

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Nov 3, 2009, 2:37 pm
I took away from this  seminar that African-American donors will hold us accountable to many of the same standards as other donors, but more stringently. If African-American possible donors see themselves in our fundraising materials, and if they are given evidence that the racism they have exper...
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UK should accept this gift and use the controversy to teach about philanthropy

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Oct 26, 2009, 11:47 am
The University of Kentucky has its hands full with a naming opportunity. This is the kind of diplomatic challenge that makes administrative work so engaging. Joe Craft, who gave the naming gift for the basketball practice facility at UK, has worked with twenty other coal industry players to assemb...
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Honor Among Thieves

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Oct 22, 2009, 5:03 pm
The chancellor of the Texas A&M system, Michael McKinney, is indignant that the former president of the flagship campus, Elsa Murano, conducted a real search for a cabinet level officer. The chancellor blames the ex-president for not keeping her word — he impugns her integrity — because she, i...
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Wannabe U 2

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Oct 20, 2009, 12:16 am
Almost two weeks ago, I promised a further post on Gaye Tuchman's Wannabe U, and I have worked over a draft much of that time. I'm not sure it's worthwhile to continue stewing about it. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm in the administration now and have begun to see the world through those windows, b...
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Anybody want to move to New York?

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Oct 13, 2009, 11:44 am
What this and this may tell about the economy or the academic job market, I don't know, but  Cornell's hiring freeze has suddenly thawed. They have posted a breathtaking 139 new (mostly administrative) jobs so far today at Inside Higher Ed. The decision process that opened this floodgate must hav...
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Never Thought of That

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Oct 10, 2009, 3:20 pm
I've got to change the name of my blog. Google thinks it's a French langauge blog, because, of course, "Talleyrand in Academe" features a French historical figure and the title itself is in French. So it will be just "Talleyrand: Negotiating Higher Education."
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The more things change...

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Oct 9, 2009, 10:13 am
Gaye Tuchman's book has arrived, and I have read through it once. It gave me the sense of deja vu. We have seen a version of this argument before. In my last post, I mentioned the question whether the book would be helpful if next year is not 1910. (It will, about which more in a later post.) At lea...
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Wannabe U?

Michael Bush posted an article on Talleyrand in Academe: Negotiating Higher Education - Oct 6, 2009, 7:59 pm
I ordered Wannabe U, by Gaye Tuchman yesterday. I suspect the academic blogosphere will be alight with it shortly, and I don't want to miss the party. I'm curious whether Tuchman has a constructive proposal that could help us negotiate higher education inside and outside the academy if next year doe...
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About Me

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord was an intellectual, flawed, relational, ambitious, epicurean, ordained, ironic leader. I am all those things, for better or worse and to greater or lesser degrees, as well. I use him as an alter ego not because I aspire to be like him, but because I already am. Like him, I want to be in the middle of things, doing important work. I hope to do so as successfully as he did, and with at least a bit more integrity.

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