Background
Bryant, Paul Thompson was born on August 24, 1928 in Oklahoma City. Son of Paul Dewey and Lynnis (Thompson) Bryant.
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OLD MEN:Sketches of a Time in Life
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"Over his eighty-plus years, Paul Bryant has worked as a farm and ranch hand, soldier, forest-fire lookout, park ranger naturalist, editor, teacher, and academic administrator. He has lived and worked in a variety of states, from Washington to North Carolina and from Texas to Massachusetts, filling in those spans with time in Oklahoma, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, and Virginia. He brings this range of experience to this series of short stories and sketches of various old men—their lives, their problems, and how they have met those problems. These are fiction, but they draw on actual experience. Old age is a challenging time for old men and old women alike. As more and more of us reach this challenging time, we can profit from learning how others have met those challenges or failed to do so. By the same token, perhaps those who have not yet reached old age will find here some increased understanding for those who have. Other books by Bryant: H. L. Davis (1978), Confessions of an Habitual Administrator (2005). "
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Confessions of an Habitual Adminstrator: An Academic Survival Manual
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Today’s institutions of higher education are complex organizations, some easily comparable to small cities. While we pay much attention to their eager students, their esteemed faculty and researchers, we often overlook the people who make them run—the administrators. On a daily basis, administrators manage the ins and outs of the often behemoth organizations for which they work, each in its particular set of circumstances, its individual people, and its peculiar assets and liabilities. Confessions of an Habitual Administrator offers practical principles for survival based on a clear concept of what a university should strive to be. These principles are distilled into some general rules, called "Bryant's Laws," that are designed to produce good administrative decisions and to prevent bad ones. Based on the author's 46 years in academe, this book is a candid and often humorous look at one administrator's experiences and the lessons he learned. These lessons are relevant to a variety of settings and will help administrators to understand their opportunities and to avoid pitfalls. Contents include How professors become administrators, or, where did I go wrong? The selection process Doing the job: Administrative concepts Doing the job: Staff and students Doing the job: Faculty Accountability and academic freedom The budget and resources maze What is a university? Or, what should it be? Who should govern a university?
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Paul Thompson Bryant
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Bachelor of Science, University Oklahoma, 1950; Master of Science, University Oklahoma, 1952; Master of Arts, University Oklahoma, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1965.
Career
Editor Institute of Technology, Washington State University, Pullman, 1954-1956, American Society Engineering Education, Urbana, Illinois, 1958-1964. Dir engineering publications University Illinois, 1958-1964. Chairman Department English Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1969-1975, faculty English, 1964-1984, associate dean graduate school, 1980-1984.
Professor English, dean Graduate College Radford University, Virginia, 1984-1993. Independent scholar, writer, consultant, since 1993.
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Other Work
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OLD MEN:Sketches of a Time in Life
("Over his eighty-plus years, Paul Bryant has worked as a ...)
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Confessions of an Habitual Adminstrator: An Academic Survival Manual
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Author essays, poems, short stories. Author: Half-Life Davis, 1978, Confessions of an Habitual Administrator, 2005, Old Men, 2009. Editor, compiler essay collection: Geography to Geotechnics, 1969.Co-editor essay collection: Frontier Experience and the American Dream, 1989.
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OLD MEN:Sketches of a Time in Life
Membership
Board directors NRV Community Sentencing, Christiansburg, Virginia, 1985-1991, board directors Buncombe County Friends of Library., 1999-2004, vice president, 2000-2002, president, 2002-2004, trustee Science Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, 1989-1992, advisory council Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, 1994-2000. With United States Army, 1946-1947. Member Modern Language Association, College English Association (president 1982-1983), Western Literature Association (executive committee 1989-1991), conference of Southern Graduate Schools (president 1991-1992).
Connections
Son of Paul Dewey and Lynnis (Thompson) Bryant. Married Genevieve Dale Bryant, August 27, 1949. Children: Elaine Lynette Bryant Smyth, Christopher Dale.
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United States
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1950
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1965
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1954 - 1956
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1984 - 1993
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