Reforming Liberal Education and the Core After the Twentieth Century: Selected Papers from the Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Montreal, Canada, April 4-7, 2002What particular form of liberal education should a college or university institute? Reform in general liberal education is an inevitable reality for faculty and the administration. Core texts are at the heart of that reform debate. Establishing an institution's core texts requires extensive research and discussion. At the 2002 Association for Core Texts and Courses conference over 100 institutions explored the relevance and role of the core texts to a 21st century education. This collection of essays captures the excitement of this debate and allows serious thinkers and practitioners of liberal arts education to see what other colleagues and institutions are developing. |
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How I Turned My Avocation | 15 |
A Core Program Campus | 29 |
A Model for Integrating Assessment | 39 |
Copyright | |
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