College [electronic resource] : what it was, is, and should be / Andrew Delbanco.

College [electronic resource] : what it was, is, and should be / Andrew Delbanco.

9781400841578 (electronic book)
9780691130736

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.

English

1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages)

LA227.4 .D455 2012eb

378.73

Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America's colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. --from publisher description

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