English 300 Texts about Liberal Education

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materials through Polk Library’s print and web resources.

Asani, Ali S. “Enhancing Religious Literacy in a Liberal Arts Education through the Study of
Islam and Muslim Societies.” The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-
First Century. Eds. Jennifer M. Shephard, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and Evelynn Maxine Hammonds.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 1-31. Print.

Cole, Johnetta B. "Black Studies in Liberal Arts Education." The Black Studies Reader. Eds.
Jacqueline Bobo, Cynthia Hudley, and Claudine Michel. London: Routledge, 2004. 21-33. Print.

Cronon, William. “Only Connect: The Goals of a Liberal Education.” williamcronon.net. Web.
http://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Cronon_Only_Connect.pdf

Delbanco, Andrew. College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be. Princeton UP, 2012. Print.
Preview in Google Books before retrieving from Polk:
http://books.google.com/books?id=51rZiLOCKggC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Delbanco,+Andrew.+College:+What+It+Was,
+Is,+and+Should+Be.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1sywUbypAuuyygGoxoDADQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA

Delbanco, Andrew. “College at Risk.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 26

Feb. 2012. Web.
http://chronicle.com/article/College-at-Risk/130893/

Durden, William. “The Liberal Arts as a Bulwark of Business Education.” The

Chronicle of Higher Education. 18 July 2003. Web.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Liberal-Arts-as-a-Bulwark/3677/

Farrell, James J. The Nature of College. Milkweed, 2010. Print.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=m7PY7cpt5fsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Farrell,+James+J.+The+Nature+of+College.&
hl=en&sa=X&ei=bdGwUc7ZOInkygG524G4Dg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA

Fellowes, Peter. “From Books to Business: the Value of a Liberal Education.” The Chronicle of
Higher Education. 28 Feb. 2003. Web.
http://chronicle.com/article/From-Books-to-Business-the/9280/

Hollywood, Amy. "On Understanding Everything: General Education, Liberal Education, and the Study of
Religion." PMLA. 126.2 (2011): 460-6. Print.
http://www.mlajournals.org.www.remote.uwosh.edu/doi/pdf/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.2.460

Keohane, Nannerl O. “The Liberal Arts as Guideposts in the 21st Century.” The
Chronicle of Higher Education. 29 Jan. 2012. Web.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Liberal-Arts-as-Guideposts/130475/

Murray, Charles. “Are Too Many People Going to College?” The American. 8 Sep. 2008. Web.
http://www.american.com/archive/2008/september-october-magazine/are-too-many-people-going-to-college

Nussbaum, Martha. Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities.
Princeton UP, 2012. Print.
Nussbaum, Martha. ‘The Liberal Arts are Not Elitist.” The Chronicle of Higher
Education. 28 Feb. 2010. Web.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Liberal-Arts-Are-Not/64355/

Nussbaum, Martha. “Liberal Education & Global Community.” Liberal Education. Winter 2004. Web.
http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-wi04/le-wi04feature4.cfm

O'Connell, Sean P. "Telling Tales in School." Journal of Homosexuality 47.1 (2004): 79-93. Print.

Orr, David. “The Liberal Arts, the Campus, and the Biosphere.” Harvard Educational Review. May 1990.
Web. http://www.metapress.com/content/41178578550r631u/fulltext.pdf (accessed via Polk Library)

Rhodes, Frank H.T. “Sustainability: The Ultimate Liberal Art.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 20 Oct.
2006. Web.
http://chronicle.com/article/Sustainability-the-Ultimate/29514/

Riggsbee, Jan. “The Role of Liberal Education in Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers.” Peer Review. Spring
2012. Web.
http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp12/Role_of_LE.cfm

Ungar, Sanford. “7 Major Misperceptions About the Liberal Arts.” The Chronicle of Higher
Education. 28 Feb. 2010. Web.
http://chronicle.com/article/7-Major-Misperceptions-Abou/64363/

Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a
Compassionate Life. Little, Brown, 2009. Print.
Link to full speech (same as video, below): http://faculty.winthrop.edu/martinme/Thisiswater.htm

Weissman, Neil. “Sustainability & Liberal Education: Partners by Nature.” Liberal Education. Fall 2012.
Web.
http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-fa12/weissman.cfm

Online videos:
David Foster Wallace commencement speech “This Is Water”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFt7EzpsZQo

Andrew Delbanco, “College: The Best Rehearsal Space for Democracy”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0NIN6r49NQ