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Distinctively American - The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges (Hardcover)
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Distinctively American - The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges (Hardcover)
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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 the liberal arts--not as the nineteenth century chose to
define them but as the twenty-first century will be obliged to
reconsider them--is being tested. Distinctively American examines
the American liberal arts college as an institution, from its role
in the lives of students, to its value as a form of education. It
explores the threats faced by liberal arts colleges as well as the
transformative role, both positive and negative, information
technology will play in their future development and survival. In
the preface introducing the volume, Stephen Graubard examines the
history of the American liberal arts colleges, from their early
disdained reputations in comparison to European schools, to their
slow rise to becoming "world-class universities." This important
volume explores the triumphs and challenges of one segment of the
American higher educational universe. It also addresses a larger
question: What ought this country be teaching its young, the many
millions who now throng its colleges and universities?
Distinctively American is essential reading for all concerned with
the future of higher education.
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