The First 1,000 Steps: Walking the Road from Academic to Administrator.

Presents the author's experiences during the course of his career from academics to administration. Opinion that the leap from a faculty position to one in administration is full of risk; Information that the author has completed his first 1,000 days and nights as the executive director of a Canadian university English-language school; View that going from being a tenure-track professor at a prestigious American graduate school to leading and managing a language school at one of Canada's highest-ranked universities has been tremendously challenging but also very rewarding.