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The idea of the American university / edited by Bradley C.S. Watson

Published
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
xii, 162 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961-

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Contents
The American university in crisis / Bradley C.S. Watson -- Pt. I. The life and times of the American university -- Universitas sine universo : on the home of truth when there is no truth / James V. Schall -- The end of the American core curriculum / Mark C. Henrie -- From civilizational memory and the upward lifting of souls, to upward mobility, to upending social mores : the going down of university education in one professor's lifetime / Gary D. Glenn -- Roller of big cigars : the American university as cheerful mortician / Peter Wood -- Eccentric education - the American way / Susan E. Hanssen -- Pt. II. Socrates in America / William Mathie -- Human dignity and higher education today / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Now that the university has become the high school, where do we get an education? / W.B. Allen -- Pt. III. The university and the liberal arts -- St. Augustine, the university, and the so-called liberal arts / Michael P. Foley -- Toward an American liberal education / John Agresto.
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ISBN
9780739149157 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739149156 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739149171 (electronic)
0739149172 (electronic)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment
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