Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges

ISBN-13: 9781138522381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 318 str.

Stephen R. Graubard

Opis

There is much change underway in American higher education

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Stephen R. Graubard