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

Informationen zum Autor John E. Seery is Professor of Politics at Pomona College. He is the author of Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death ; Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory, from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement ; and coeditor (with Daniel W. Conway) of The Politics of Irony: Essays in Self-Betrayal . Klappentext Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.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.

Product details

• Authors: Susan (EDT)/ Seery Mcwilliams
• Assisted by: Susan McWilliams (Editor), McWilliams Susan (Editor), John E Seery (Editor), John E. Seery (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781438457727
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5772-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Social welfare & social services, United States of America, USA, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Higher education, tertiary education, Central government policies, Colleges of further education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher