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Readings in General/Liberal Education

  • Lee S. Shulman, "Making Differences: A Table of Learning," Change (November/December 2002): 36-44.

  • Nancy Cantor and Steven Schomberg, "What We Want Students to Learn," Change (November/December 2002): 46-49.

  • David Schoem, "Transforming Undergraduate Education: Moving beyond Distinct Undergraduate Initiatives," Change (November/December 2002): 50-55.

  • Milton Greenberg, "It's Time to Require Liberal Arts Accreditation: Why We Can No Longer Ignore 'General Education'," AAHE Bulletin (April 2002): 3-5.

  • Peter Stearns, "General Education Revisited, Again," Liberal Education (winter 2002): 42-47.

  • Robert Holyer, "The Oriel Common Room: General Education & Faculty Culture," Liberal Education (winter 2002): 36-41.

  • James M. Jasper, "How the Research-University Model Has Killed the Creativity of Humanists and Social Scientists," The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 7, 2002).

  • Kenneth A. Bruffee, "Taking the Common Ground: Beyond Cultural Identity," Change (January/February 2002): 11-17.

  • John G. Ramsay, "Hell's Bibliophiles: The Fifth Way of Looking at an Aliterate," Change (January/February 2002): 51-56.

  • William Durden, "Liberal Arts for All, Not Just the Rich," The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 19, 2001).

  • Clark Lemons, "Public Presentation and the Liberal Arts," Liberal Education (fall 2001): 50-55.

  • Barbara Leigh Smith, "The Challenge of Learning Communities as a Growing National Movement," peerReview (summer/fall 2001): 4-8.

  • Karen Oates and John O'Connor, "Developing the Faculty We Need," peerReview (summer/fall 2001): 9-13.

  • Martha Bergin, Geri Rasmussen, and Elizabeth Skinner, "A Comparison of Two Models for Integrating Curriculum: The Academic Evergreen Model and the Problem Based Learning Model," peerReview (summer/fall 2001): 14-18.

  • Karen Oates, "Promoting Progressive Pedagogies: A Case for Community Based Undergraduate Research," peerReview (summer/fall 2001): 19-20.

  • Grant H. Cornwell and Eve Walsh Stoddard, "The Future of Liberal Education & the Hegemony of Market Values: Privilege, Practicality, and Citizenship," Liberal Education (summer 2001): 6-15.

  • Peter A. Facione, "Learning from Heads, Hands, & Hearts: Random Rants and Reflections on Liberal Education," Liberal Education (summer 2001): 16-21.

  • Raymond Lou and Karen L. Mendonca, "Blueprint for the Future," Liberal Education (summer 2001): 26-31.

  • John B. Bennett, "Liberal Learning as Conversation," Liberal Education (spring 2001): 32-39.

  • Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, "Cultural Literacy Depends on Survey Courses," The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 24, 2000).

  • Donald Kagan, "What is a Liberal Education," in Reconstructing History, eds. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn (New York: Routledge, 1999), 214-225.

  • Vincent Tinto, "Learning Communities, Collaborative Learning, and the Pedagogy of Educational Citizenship," AAHE Bulletin (March 1995): 11-13.

  • Peter W. Schramm, "On Reclaiming Liberal Education in the University" (testimony, Ohio House of Representatives, Colleges and Universities Subcommittee, March 9, 1995).

  • Lorraine Smith Pangle, "Liberal Education and Politics: Lessons from the American Founding," Academic Questions no. 1, vol. 8 (winter 1994-95).

  • Association of American Colleges, Strong Foundations: Twelve Principles for Effective General Education Programs (Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges, 1994).

  • Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle, The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993).

  • Jan H. Blits, "The Search for Ends: Liberal Education and the Modern University," in The American University: Problems, Prospects and Trends, ed. Jan H. Blits (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1985).

  • William J. Bennett, To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Humanities in Higher Education (Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984).