Only Leave a Trace: Meditations

by Roger Epp, Rhonda Harder Epp (Illustrator)

Overview

“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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781772123128
Publisher:	The University of Alberta Press
Publication date:	04/18/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Set on a Wall 1

Only Leave a Trace 3

Hard Times 4

The Teacher of Machiavelli 6

Vikingskipshuset, Oslo 7

Make Yourself Big 8

Under

If Students Ask 11

Reciprocity 12

Easter Weekend 13

Years of Promises to See this Day 14

Round Dance 15

Dog Sled 16

Those Who Build Bridges 17

While Stephen Lewis Sleeps 18

Over

Highway Time 21

A Life as Thin as Paper 22

Straw-Men and Politicians 23

Six Years, No Accidents 24

A Curator of Tears 25

Another Year, And No Disaster 26

Job Description 27

This is the Way the World Will End or, How a Dean Thinks 29

Aroud 1

Someplace, Not No-Place 33

Saturday Morning at the Co-op 34

Doctor Fowler 36

Reading University 37

Boundaries 38

First Things, And How Wine Was Served on Campus 39

Resource Curse 41

Around 2

On Sunday They Will Walk 45

Leave a Message at the Tone 47

The Under-Painting 48

A Wednesday Night in Daysland 49

Generation Gap 50

Brainstorm 51

Return to Aberystwyth 52

Turning 50 53

Through

SE 09 31 06 57

Set on a Wall 2

Numbering the Days 65

The Old Man in Winter 66

Iron Cage 68

The Image of a Hundred Years 69

Reminders 70

Last Night in June 71

Notes 73

Acknowledgements 77

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