Help Me Choose The Cover of My Next Book

I am very excited that my next book Portrait of a Presidency:  Patterns in My Life as President of The College of New Jersey will be published in January 2025 with Koehler Books!  As in the past, Koehler Books conducts a poll for prospective readers to help choose the...

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Mentoring

Why a Mentor Matters Author in Residence  |  by Barbara Gitenstein Monday, June 10, 2024     Laddawan punna/Shutterstock The success of my career of almost 50 years can largely be attributed to my great fortune of having supportive mentors. "Experience is the Angled...

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Women in War, the Classroom and the President’s Office

Because it’s Women’s History Month, I have been giving a good bit of thought about the place of women as leaders and agents of change in the current world. My thoughts have not been encouraging.I read Kristin Hannah’s THE WOMEN almost as soon as it was published....

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Retrieving the Sparks

Earlier this week, during a call with a wide range of representatives from the post-secondary education community providing input on a publication for a higher education association, I was struck by a powerful lack of empathy evidenced by some of my colleagues. We...

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My Daughter was Right

This is a follow up to the post "Waiting and Hoping." Today I received an email alerting me to the fact that on Wednesday, October 11, before that day's production of Nabucco, Peter Gelb came on stage to speak to the audience and "explained that to honor the memory of...

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Waiting and Hoping

On October 7, 2023, my husband and I attended a performance of Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera. Up until time to leave, we had been glued to the television watching reports of the devastating and shocking Hamas attacks on southern Israel and the beginning of the...

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Barbara Gitenstein is the author of some 30 academic articles on Jewish-American Literature and academic administration as well as the monograph Apocalyptic Messianism and Jewish-American Poetry