The Best Kind of College: An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1438457715 ISBN 13 : 9781438457710

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2015

Synopsis

The fevered controversy over America's educational future isn't simply academic; those who have proposed sweeping reforms include government officials, politicians, foundation officers, think-tank researchers, journalists, media pundits, and university administrators. Drowned out in that noisy debate are the voices of those who actually teach the liberal arts exclusively to undergraduates in our nation's small liberal arts colleges, or SLACs. The Best Kind of College attempts to rectify that glaring oversight. As an insiders' "guide" to the liberal arts in its truest form the volume brings together thirty award-winning professors from across the country to convey in various ways some of the virtues, the electricity, and, overall, the importance of the small-seminar, face-to-face approach to education, as typically featured in SLACs. Before we in the United States abandon or compromise our commitment to the liberal arts—oddly enough, precisely at a time when our global competitors are discovering, emulating, and founding American-style SLACs and new liberal arts programs—we need a wake-up call, namely to the fact that the nation's SLACs provide a time-tested model of educational integrity and success.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan McWilliams is Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College and the author of Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory. John E. Seery is George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics at Pomona College and the author of America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal Arts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438457715
• ISBN 13: 9781438457710
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 303
• Éditeur: Mcwilliams Susan, Seery John E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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