An open access publication of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Winter 1999

Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts College

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Preface

by Stephen Richards Graubard
 


Foreword

by Steven Koblik
 


The Making of the Liberal Arts College Identity

by Hugh Hawkins
 


The Threats to Liberal Arts Colleges

by Paul Neely
 


The Future Economic Challenges for the Liberal Arts Colleges

by Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro
 


How the Liberal Arts College Affects Students

by Alexander W. Astin
 


Affirmation and Adaptation: Values and the Elite Residential College

by Peter J. Gomes
 


The Currents of Democracy: The Role of Small Liberal Arts Colleges

by Geoffrey Canada
 


Distinctively American: The Liberal Arts College

by Eugene M. Lang
 


The American College as the Place for Liberal Learning

by Eva T. H. Brann
 


Generating Ideals and Transforming Lives: A Contemporary Case for the Residential Liberal Arts College

by Richard H. Hersh
 


Science at Liberal Arts Colleges: A Better Education?

by Thomas R. Cech
 


New Approaches to Science and Mathematics Teaching at Liberal Arts Colleges

by Priscilla W. Laws
 


Vortex, Clouds, and Tongue: New Problems in the Humanities?

by Christina Elliott Sorum
 


Reassessing Research: Liberal Arts Colleges and the Social Sciences

by Susan C. Bourque