Years of yearning
Subtitle: memoir of Brother Mel Anderson, FSC, President 1969-1997
By: Brother Mel Anderson, FSC
Publisher: Brother Mel Anderson, FSC
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Moraga, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780578098357
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Presidents; History; Catholic universities and colleges; St. Mary's College of California; Christian Brothers
Description: Brother Mel's presidency spanned decades of enormous change at Saint Mary College of California and in the outside world. From financial tensions and academic politics over curricular changes, to anti-war protests, the civil rights and women's rights movements, to the changes in the Church following Vatican II, Brother Mel Anderson's memoir highlights the societal, academic and financial complexities that surrounded and affected the Moraga campus during 1969 to 1997. Throughout his presidency, he guided the College in adapting to the new world without sacrificing its Catholic, Lasallian, and Liberal Arts foundations.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Years of recession 1969-1977; title: Crucial years 1971-1973; title: Academic initiatives; title: Physical tenewal: the time had come; title: Financial challenges; title: The Moraga community; title: The beginnings of a pre-renaissance, 1976-1977; title: The campus as a work of art, 1928; title: The fine and performing arts, 1969-1997; title: Athletics: they did it every time, 1969-1997; title: Guiding student life; title: Academic life, 1975-1997; title: Academic crises; title: Expansion for students; title: Emerging years, 1980-1985; title: Student life in the early '80's; title: Leaping forward; title: Coming of age; title: Faster forward; title: Thinking of the millennium; title: Years of administrative consolidation; title: My final year; title: Appendices.