Prospectus for change
Subtitle: American private higher education : papers presented at colloquia in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Duke Endowment
By: sponsored by the Duke Endowment ; edited by Elizabeth H. Locke.
Contributors: Locke, Elizabeth H.; Duke Endowment.
Publisher: The Endowment
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Private universities and colleges -- United States -- Curricula -- Congresses; Education, Humanistic -- United States -- Congresses; African American universities and colleges -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: American private higher education.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"Held at Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC, April 4 1984; Davidson College, Davidson, NC, March 6, 1984; Furman University, Greenville, SC, May 4, 1984; Duke University, Durham, NC, December 4, 1984."
Table of contents: title: Preface / Mary D.B.T. Semans; title: Introduction and overview / Elizabeth H. Locke; title: The report of the National Commission on Educational Excellence : implications for historically Black colleges / Norman C. Francis; title: Internationalizing the liberal arts curriculum / Charles W. Bray III; title: The changing American college student / Alexander W. Astin; title: In the face of change : implications for faculty and administrators of liberal arts colleges / John H. Crabtree, Jr.; title: Science and the humanities in the private university / Edward A. Knapp; title: Is there a future for the humanities in the private university? / Clyde de L. Ryals.