Distinctively American: The liberal arts college

Daedalus

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-150

  Lang, Eugene M ^a,b,c,d  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b I Have a Dream Foundation

^c Conference of Board Chairmen of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges ^*

^d NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 0141918362     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
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References (14)

1. Carnegie classification as published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 October 1998.
2. Woodrow Wilson, "Princeton in the Nation's Service," Forum XXII (December 1896).
3. Gregory S. Prince, Jr., "Are We Graduating Good Citizens?" Educational Record (Summer/Fall 1997).
4. Arthur Levine and Jana Nidifier, Beating the Odds: How the Poor Get to College (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996).
5. Adam Yarmolinsky, "Constraints and Opportunities," in Rethinking Liberal Education, ed. Nicholas H. Farnham and Adam Yarmolinsky (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
6. Vartan Gregorian, inaugural address at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1989.
7. Frank Wong, "The Search for American Liberal Education," in Farnham and Yarmolinsky, eds., Rethinking Liberal Education.
8. Leon Botstein, Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (New York: Doubleday, 1997).
9. James R. Mingle, "Responding to the New Market for Higher Education," AGB Priorities (11) (Summer 1998).
10. Michael J. Sandel, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996).
11. Unless obviously used in another context, the word "program" in this essay refers to a comprehensive program for preparing college students for socially responsible citizenship. The word "project" in this essay refers to any activity or undertaking that is part of a program and its implementation.
12. Benjamin R. Barber and Richard Battistoni, Education for Democracy: A Sourcebook (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishers, 1998).
13. John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: Macmillan, 1916).
14. Alfred H. Bloom in Swarthmore Papers, ed. Barry Schwartz (n.p., January 1993).