From the Cast-Iron Shore - In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning

Informationen zum Autor Francis Oakley is the Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas Emeritus, and president emeritus of Williams College. He is also president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship and Consent (1300 to 1650) and The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050 to 1300) . Klappentext From the Cast-Iron Shore is part personal memoir and part participant-observer's educational history. As president emeritus at Williams College in Massachusetts, Francis Oakley details its progression from a fraternity-dominated institution in the 1950s to the leading liberal arts college it is today, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. Oakley's own life frames this transformation. He talks of growing up in England, Ireland, and Canada, and his time as a soldier in the British Army, followed by his years as a student at Yale University. As an adult, Oakley's provocative writings on church authority stimulated controversy among Catholic scholars in the years after Vatican II. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Medieval Academy of America, and an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has written extensively on medieval intellectual and religious life and on American higher education.Oakley combines this account of his life with reflections on social class, the relationship between teaching and research, the shape of American higher education, and the challenge of educational leadership in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The book is an account of the life of a scholar who has made a deep impact on his historical field, his institution, his nation, and his church, and will be of significant appeal to administrators of liberal arts colleges and universities, historians, medievalists, classicists, and British and American academics. Zusammenfassung Part personal memoir and part participant-observer's educational history. As president emeritus at Williams College in Massachusetts, Francis Oakley details its progression from a fraternity-dominated institution in the 1950s to the leading liberal arts college it is today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prelude Part 1. LIVERPOOL 1. The secure realm of BEFORE 2. The shadowed world of AFTER 3. Trajectories of Fear 4. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam Part 2. LISSANANNY, OXFORD, TORONTO, CAMBRIDGE, MA., PRESTON, ALDERSHOT, CATTERICK, GLOUCESTER, NEW HAVEN 5. Poblacht na hÉireann 6. Collegium Corporis Christi 7. Oh, Canada! 8. On Her Majesty's Service 9. Lux et veritas Part 3. WILLIAMSTOWN 10. Williamstown and its College 11. Encountering the Old Williams 12. The Transformative Sixties (i): The New Williams 13. The Transformative Sixties (ii): The Second Vatican Council 14. Vita contemplativa: Teaching and Research 15. Vita activa (i): Matters of governance 16. Vita activa (ii): The administrative turn 17. Presidential Years (i): The job: nature, range and variety 18. Presidential Years (ii): Organization, appointments, initiatives 19. Presidential Years (iii): Principal challenges confronted 20. Aftermath Postlude Acknowledgements Citations ...

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• Authors: Francis Oakley
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2018
• EAN: 9780268104016
• ISBN: 978-0-268-10401-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries