A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radc
The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times, stimulated, supported, or allowed itself to ......
Intended for professional administrators, job seekers and the general public, this work identifies various parties in the hiring process and defines their roles.
Argues that higher education is a moral enterprise and that, as such, it must be guided by a commitments to what is morally right and fundamentally good, not just by what is necessary in intellectual or financial endeavors.
As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely.
This powerful, important, and controversial collection pushes the limits of criticism and, in so doing, represents the most sophisticated critical thinking being done today. Pedagogy is seen here as more than classroom practices or instructional methods. The authors of these eleven provocative and sometimes disturbing chapters view pedagogy as the ......
Chronicles events at a besieged university during the campus unrest of the Vietnam era. This book demonstrates the polarisation of campus constituencies, pointing out that diverse opinions existed among students, faculty, and administrators. It also examines the impact of student protests on state and national politicians and on the public.
Answers the fundamental question: How does a university like Georgetown maintain and develop its Catholic and Jesuit identity while actively engaging in the often conflicting political, social, and religious debates that America must urgently conduct today?
Traces the author's odyssey as he discovers his vocation, from his own college days to his tenure in a Turkish university as a visiting Fulbright scholar. This book is a collection of essays about higher education and American culture that dramatises and humanises the abstractly treated subject of education.
A first-person account of a moving human experience, in which some deeply-caring people search for ways to provide a humane, effective learning experience for students who are seen as preparing to be practitioners of a humane, changing profession.
