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The good of this place : values and challenges in college education /

This eloquent collection of essays and speeches by Richard H. Brodhead addresses issues of importance to institutes of higher learning and to those who participate in them. As the popular Dean of Yale College from 1993 to 2004, Brodhead was involved in every aspect of undergraduate education - curri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brodhead, Richard H., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Words for new students. Welcome home
  • The freedom of this place
  • A more exemplary life begun
  • 2000 and you
  • What is fitting
  • The way to worry
  • Hazards of success
  • What country, friends, is this?
  • Of preparation for an unknown world
  • Learning by choice and by chance
  • Words at midterm
  • Aspects of education. On administration
  • An anatomy of multiculturalism
  • On residential education
  • On sexual harassment
  • Two writer's beginnings: Eudora Welty in the neighborhood of Richard Wright
  • At the millennium: an agenda going forward
  • Taking democracy to school
  • Free speech and its discontents
  • The new internationalism: globalizing comparative literature
  • Official business. Remarks on the tercentennial of Yale University
  • Selections from the report on Yale College education
  • Forms of farewell. Baccalaureate readings
  • Singing in the prospect of time
  • Remarks on accepting the presidency of Duke University.