Reclaiming the Public University: Conversations on General & Liberal Education (Higher ed: Questions About the Purpose(S) of Colleges and Universities)
Contributors: Judith Summerfield (Editor); Crystal Benedicks (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780820481524
Subjects: Educational Policy & Reform; Higher; Education; Education / Teaching; Aims and objectives; Curricula; Education, Higher; Education, Humanistic; United States; Universities and colleges
Description: To reclaim the public university is to focus our energies on teaching all our students well, educating them for a new, increasingly complicated age. To deliver on this promise, we must interrogate the general education we provide for our students, for that is the vast, unrecognized ground we stand on. It is what students and faculty do most in common. If we can get educating our students right, generally and liberally, then we will have laid a claim to what the public university needs to be.