I first learned of Pierre van den Berghe‘s brilliant little book on how to make one’s way in higher education as a psychology graduate student in the early 1980s from my then mentor, Leland Wilkinson. Lee loaned me Academic Gamesmanship, and I found it sidesplittingly funny. My dad was an academic (a biology professor at the City Colleges of Chicago), so I had grown up seeing the up- and downsides of the academy first-hand. Van den Berghe’s book gave wonderful expression to much of what...
