Creating Community on College Campuses

Irving J. Spitzberg Jr., Virginia V. Thorndike (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

233 Seiten

1992
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-1005-9 (ISBN)

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Creating Community on College Campuses addresses the most critical and difficult issues facing higher education in the 1990s: improving the quality of teaching and learning, raising academic standards, protecting freedom of expression, and simultaneously enhancing community of the whole and community of the parts. This book offers an understanding of community as a complex concept, one that incorporates the values of a democratic society and encourages learning and participation by all citizens of the campus, and discusses topics such as race and ethnicity, the climate for women, harassment and free speech, alcohol, crime, Greek life, and interaction among faculty and students. The authors conclude with concrete recommendations to support the implementation of pluralistic learning communities on our nation's campuses.

Irving J. Spitzberg, Jr. and Virginia V. Thorndike are President and Vice President respectively of The Knowledge Company. During 1989, they completed a year-long study of community on campus for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Spitzberg has written numerous books on leadership, race relations, comparative higher education policy, the international exchange of knowledge, and legal issues. Dr. Thorndike has written about contemporary French literary theory, foreign language pedagogy, and cross-cultural literacy.

Foreword by Ernest Boyer

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. INTRODUCTION

1. Overview

2. Campus Life in Perspective: Historical Snapshots

Part II. DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY: CAN THEY COEXIST?

Introduction

3. Race and Ethnicity

4. The Climate for Women

Part III. THE BOUNDARIES OF AUTHORITY: REGULATING AND EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY

Introductions

5. Alcohol Abuse

6. The Greeks

7. Harassment and Free Speech

8. Crime

9. Enforcement

Part IV. THE LEARNING COMMUNITY: PROMISES TO KEEP

Introduction

10. Student Priorities and Opportunities

11. Faculty Priorities and Opportunities

Part V. COMMUNITY, COMPLEXITY, DIVERSITY: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS

Introduction

12. When We Touch Common Ground

13. Compact for a Pluralistic Community

14. Recommendations for Community in Action

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.1992
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-7914-1005-6 / 0791410056
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-1005-9 / 9780791410059
Zustand	Neuware