The Soul Of The American University
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The Soul Of The American University
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Author : George M. Marsden
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
The Soul Of The American University written by George M. Marsden and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Education, Higher categories.
Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.
The Soul Of The American University
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Author : George M. Marsden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-07-01
The Soul Of The American University written by George M. Marsden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-01 with categories.
Only a century ago, almost all state univ. held compulsory chapel services, and some required Sunday church attendance as well. Today, however, the once pervasive influence of religion in the intellectual and cultural life of America's colleges and univ. has all but vanished. This book explores how, and why, these changes occurred. It offers a critique of that era, surveying the role of Protestantism in higher educ. from the founding of Harvard through the collapse of the WASP establishment in the 1960s. It ranges from stories of many of our pacesetting univ. at defining moments in their histories to an analysis of such issues as the debates over Darwinism and the impact of changing student mores.
The Soul Of The American University Revisited
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Author : George M. Marsden
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-28
The Soul Of The American University Revisited written by George M. Marsden and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-28 with Religion categories.
The Soul of the American University is a classic and much discussed account of the changing roles of Christianity in shaping American higher education, presented here in a newly revised edition to offer insights for a modern era. As late as the World War II era, it was not unusual even for state schools to offer chapel services or for leading universities to refer to themselves as "Christian" institutions. From the 1630s through the 1950s, when Protestantism provided an informal religious establishment, colleges were expected to offer religious and moral guidance. Following reactions in the 1960s against the WASP establishment and concerns for diversity, this specifically religious heritage quickly disappeared and various secular viewpoints predominated. In this updated edition of a landmark volume, George Marsden explores the history of the changing roles of Protestantism in relation to other cultural and intellectual factors shaping American higher education. Far from a lament for a lost golden age, Marsden offers a penetrating analysis of the changing ways in which Protestantism intersected with collegiate life, intellectual inquiry, and broader cultural developments. He tells the stories of many of the nation's pace-setting universities at defining moments in their histories. By the late nineteenth-century when modern universities emerged, debates over Darwinism and higher criticism of the Bible were reshaping conceptions of Protestantism; in the twentieth century important concerns regarding diversity and inclusion were leading toward ever-broader conceptions of Christianity; then followed attacks on the traditional WASP establishment which brought dramatic disestablishment of earlier religious privilege. By the late twentieth century, exclusive secular viewpoints had become the gold standard in higher education, while our current era is arguably "post-secular". The Soul of the American University Revisited deftly examines American higher education as it exists in the twenty-first century.
The Lost Soul Of Higher Education
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Author : Ellen Schrecker
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2010-08-24
The Lost Soul Of Higher Education written by Ellen Schrecker and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-24 with Education categories.
The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education. Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American university is under attack from two fronts. On the one hand, outside pressure groups have staged massive challenges to academic freedom, beginning in the 1960s with attacks on faculty who opposed the Vietnam War, and resurfacing more recently with well-funded campaigns against Middle Eastern Studies scholars. Connecting these dots, Schrecker reveals a distinct pattern of efforts to undermine the legitimacy of any scholarly study that threatens the status quo. At the same time, Schrecker deftly chronicles the erosion of university budgets and the encroachment of private-sector influence into academic life. From the dwindling numbers of full-time faculty to the collapse of library budgets, The Lost Soul of Higher Education depicts a system increasingly beholden to corporate America and starved of the resources it needs to educate the new generation of citizens. A sharp riposte to the conservative critics of the academy by the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, The Lost Soul of Higher Education, reveals a system in peril—and defends the vital role of higher education in our democracy.
The Emergence Of The American University 1865 1910
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Author : Laurence R. Veysey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Emergence Of The American University 1865 1910 written by Laurence R. Veysey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Universities and colleges categories.
Restoring The Soul Of The University
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Author : Perry L. Glanzer
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2017-03-28
Restoring The Soul Of The University written by Perry L. Glanzer and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Education categories.
Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Politics/Public Life Has the American university gained the whole world but lost its soul? In terms of money, prestige, power, and freedom, American universities appear to have gained the academic world. But at what cost? We live in the age of the fragmented multiversity that has no unifying soul or mission. The multiversity in a post-Christian culture is characterized instead by curricular division, the professionalization of the disciplines, the expansion of administration, the loss of community, and the idolization of athletics. The situation is not hopeless. According to Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, and Todd C. Ream, Christian universities can recover their soul—but to do so will require reimagining excellence in a time of exile, placing the liberating arts before the liberal arts, and focusing on the worship, love, and knowledge of God as central to the university. Restoring the Soul of the University is a pioneering work that charts the history of the university and casts an inspiring vision for the future of higher education.
The Emergence Of The American University
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Author : Laurence R. Veysey
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1970-03-15
The Emergence Of The American University written by Laurence R. Veysey and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-03-15 with Education categories.
The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. At that time the university, and with it a recognizably modern style of academic life, emerged to eclipse the older, religiously oriented college. Precedents, formal and informal, were then set which have affected the soul of professor, student, and academic administrator ever since. What did the men living in this formative period want the American university to become? How did they differ in defining the ideal university? And why did the institution acquire a form that only partially corresponded with these definitions? These are the questions Mr. Veysey seeks to answer.
To Redeem The Soul Of America
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Author : Adam Fairclough
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2001
To Redeem The Soul Of America written by Adam Fairclough and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
To Redeem the Soul of America looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr., to disclose the full workings of the organization that supported him. As Adam Fairclough reveals the dynamics within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, Andrew Young, and others also played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago. Joining a charismatic leader with an inspired group of activists, the SCLC built a bridge from the black proletariat to the white liberal elite and then, finally, to the halls of Congress and the White House.
Excellence Without A Soul
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Author : Harry Lewis
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2007-08-14
Excellence Without A Soul written by Harry Lewis and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-14 with Education categories.
America's great research universities are the envy of the world -- and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of undergraduate education is to turn young people into adults who will take responsibility for society. In Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, a Harvard professor for more than thirty years and Dean of Harvard College for eight, draws from his experience to explain how our great universities have abandoned their mission. Harvard is unique; it is the richest, oldest, most powerful university in America, and so it has set many standards, for better or worse. Lewis evaluates the failures of this grand institution -- from the hot button issue of grade inflation to the recent controversy over Harvard's handling of date rape cases -- and makes an impassioned argument for change. The loss of purpose in America's great colleges is not inconsequential. Harvard, Yale, Stanford -- these places drive American education, on which so much of our future depends. It is time to ask whether they are doing the job we want them to do.
The Idea Of The American University
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Author : Bradley C.S. Watson
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011-01-16
The Idea Of The American University written by Bradley C.S. Watson and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-16 with Education categories.
As John Henry Newman reflected on "The Idea of a University" more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather sad times of the American university, its relationship to democracy, and the place of the liberal arts within it. Their mordant reflections paint a picture of the American university in crisis. But they also point toward a renewal of the university by redirecting it toward those things that resist the passions of the moment, or the pull of mere utility. This book is essential reading for thoughtful citizens, scholars, and educational policymakers.