| The Best Kind of College: An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges Contributor(s): McWilliams, Susan (Editor), Seery, John E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1438457723 ISBN-13: 9781438457727 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Study Aids | College Guides |
| Dewey: 378.154 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 314 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
