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From the Cast-Iron Shore - In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning (Hardcover)
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From the Cast-Iron Shore - In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning (Hardcover)
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From the Cast-Iron Shore is part personal memoir and part
participant-observer's educational history. As president emeritus
at Williams College in Massachusetts, Francis Oakley details its
progression from a fraternity-dominated institution in the 1950s to
the leading liberal arts college it is today, as ranked by U.S.
News and World Report. Oakley's own life frames this
transformation. He talks of growing up in England, Ireland, and
Canada, and his time as a soldier in the British Army, followed by
his years as a student at Yale University. As an adult, Oakley's
provocative writings on church authority stimulated controversy
among Catholic scholars in the years after Vatican II. A Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Medieval Academy
of America, and an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, he has written extensively on medieval intellectual and
religious life and on American higher education. Oakley combines
this account of his life with reflections on social class, the
relationship between teaching and research, the shape of American
higher education, and the challenge of educational leadership in
the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The book is an
account of the life of a scholar who has made a deep impact on his
historical field, his institution, his nation, and his church, and
will be of significant appeal to administrators of liberal arts
colleges and universities, historians, medievalists, classicists,
and British and American academics.
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