Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 214 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300067615
,
0300241763
,
9780300067613
,
9780300241761
Content:
Since the late nineteenth century, a number of American universities - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Chicago, the Claremont Colleges, and the University of California at Santa Cruz - have attempted to organize students and faculty into small undergraduate residential colleges similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge. Proponents of these projects believed that the residential college system would foster academic and intellectual values while countering what they saw as the deleterious effects on undergraduate education of the expansion of the university and the increasing research orientation of its faculty. This book tells the story of these efforts - some successful and some not - adding a new chapter to the history of higher education in America
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index
,
Ch. 1. The Paradox of the English Residential College -- Ch. 2. The Whole Man and the Gentleman Scholar -- Ch. 3. Early Attempts: Harvard, Chicago, and Princeton -- Ch. 4. The Harkness Bequests: Harvard Houses and Yale Colleges -- Ch. 5. Claremont: The "Oxford Plan of the Pacific" -- Ch. 6. The University of California, Santa Cruz: "The City on a Hill."
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Duke, Alex, 1958- Importing Oxbridge New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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