1st Edition
Distinctively American The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges
By Stephen R. Graubard
Copyright 2000
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
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There is much change underway in American higher education. New technologies are challenging the teaching practices of yesterday, distance learning is lauded, and private firms offer to certify the educational credentials that businesses and others will deem satisfactory. In this new environment, America's liberal arts colleges propound a quite different set of values. Their continuing faith in... Read more
1: The Making of the Liberal Arts College Identity; 2: The Threats to Liberal Arts Colleges; 3: The Future Economie Challenges for the Liberal Arts Colleges; 4: How the Liberal Arts College Affects Students; 5: Affirmation and Adaptation: Values and the Elite Residential College; 6: The Currents of Democracy: The Role of Small Liberal Arts Colleges; 7: Distinctively American: The Liberal Arts College; 8: The American College as the Place for Liberal Learning; 9: Generating Ideals and Transforming Lives: A Contemporary Case for the Residential Liberal Arts College; 10: Science at Liberal Arts Colleges: A Better Education?; 11: New Approaches to Science and Mathematics Teaching at Liberal Arts Colleges; 12: “Vortex, Clouds, and Tongue”: New Problems in the Humanities?; 13: Reassessing Research: Liberal Arts Colleges and the Social Sciences; 14: At Home in Our World: The Place of International Studies in Liberal Arts Colleges; 15: Stability and Transformation: Information Technology in Liberal Arts Colleges; 16: The Liberal Arts College
Biography
Stephen R. Graubard
