Steven M. Cahn is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he served for nearly a decade as provost and vice president for academic affairs, then as acting president. He taught at Dartmouth College, Vassar College, New York University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Vermont, where he chaired the Department of Philosophy. He is the author or editor of more than seventy books.
""No philosopher has done more than Steven Cahn to sensitize academicians to the moral dimensions of their profession--the gap between what they do and what they ought to be doing. In his hallmark crisp and lucid prose, Cahn has written a wide-ranging book full of wisdom and insight."" --David Shatz, Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Thought, Yeshiva University ""In this collection of concise and engaging essays, Steven Cahn distills a career's worth of crucial insights about university administration, a professors' responsibilities, academic life, and the purposes of the liberal arts. Anyone contending with the rapidly changing landscape of higher education will benefit from this volume."" --Robert B. Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University