Foreign Language Requirements in the Liberal Arts College and the University

1972 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Reino Virtanen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
The University

In the Wake of Laurence Veysey: Re-examining the Liberal Arts College

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
American University ◽  
Graduate School Training ◽  
The University ◽  
School Training

In The Emergence of the American University, Laurence R. Veysey enriched our understanding of the American university at its creation in the second half of the nineteenth century. He demonstrated how this new institution drew on German approaches and valued experimental, empirical methods of knowledge. The university introduced the lecture and seminar. It valued graduate school training above all; the doctoral dissertation required that its students become creators of new knowledge, preferably by experimental methods. Veysey helped us understand the emerging American university by creating a useful ideal type.

Archives and Special Collections at the University of La Verne: Putting the Repository of a Small Liberal Arts College to Work Online

Collections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Benjamin Jenkins ◽  
Keren Darancette
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Japanese American Internment ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
University Of La Verne ◽  
The University

Archives and Special Collections at the Wilson Library of the University of La Verne, located in inland southern California, offers an informative case study of descriptive practices and metadata attached to digital collections at a small liberal arts college. Since recruiting a staff specifically tasked to manage the archives, the Wilson Library has increased the number of collections available to patrons online through the creation of a digital collections Web page. Digitized, hosted collections include the papers of a faculty member from the early 20th century, photographs of early La Verne, historic local newspapers, and manuscript sources regarding Japanese American internment. Metadata fields at Wilson Library have developed to encompass a greater variety of contextual information about digitized records, improving users' ability to put the collections to use for research. Ultimately, this case study demonstrates what a library at a small university can accomplish with a dedicated staff and a clear objective, even with limited resources.

“Without Hysteria or Unnecessary Disturbance”: Desegregation at Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, 1948–1954

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Padgett
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Massive Resistance ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
One Year ◽  
Supreme Court Rulings ◽  
The University

Spring Hill College is Alabama's oldest institution of higher learning, one year older than the University of Alabama. Founded in 1830 by Michael Portier, the Catholic bishop of Mobile, it has been run by the Jesuits since 1847. When it desegregated in September, 1954, the four-year liberal arts college claimed 1,000 students, including its evening division in downtown Mobile. The desegregation of Spring Hill College (SHC) came just before the increased Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and White Citizens Council activity which led the backlash to the Supreme Court'sBrown v. Board of Educationdecision. Although volumes have been written about resistance to desegregation in the Deep South, almost no published research exists on the peaceful desegregation of white southern colleges, which anticipated and complied with Supreme Court rulings. This essay will place SHC's unique story in the context of the desegregation of higher education in the South and of race relations in Mobile, Alabama, in the decade before massive resistance. It will examine models for desegregation of Catholic colleges before theBrowndecision and, finally, will detail SHC's desegregation as a gradual process that occurred between 1948 and 1954.

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