A College President Finds Silence for a Week.

Authors :: Hopkins-Powell, Sara
Source :: Chronicle of Higher Education. 6/29/2001, Vol. 47 Issue 42, pB5-B5. 1p.
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: Describes the author's experiences while on a personal retreat at a monastery. Significance of the experience to the author, a provost serving as interim president at a public university; Importance of quiet time to those serving at academic institutions; Description of the monastic life; Increasing popularity of monasteries that are open for individual retreats.