Author: Smith CollegePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Celebration of the Quarter-centenary of Smith College
Author: Smith CollegeThe Early History of Smith College, 1871-1910
Author: Laurenus Clark SeelyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
For the Common Good
Author: Charles DornPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712608
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university—in states from California to Maine—Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
The Americana
Author: Frederick Converse BeachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The Americana
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Obituary Record of Graduates of Amherst College for the Academical Year Ending ...
Author: Amherst CollegeAmong Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description