Only Leave a Trace: Meditations - Softcover

Epp, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1772122661 ISBN 13: 9781772122664

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2017

Synopsis

"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.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1772122661
• ISBN 13: 9781772122664
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Harder Epp Rhonda
• Number of pages: 96