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Transforming Campus Culture
Ruth Shoemaker Wood
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Description for Transforming Campus Culture
Hardback. At a time when football and fraternities ruled the American campus, Frank Aydelotte shaped Swarthmore College into an intellectually-charged, academically-focused institution able to command national respect and financial support. Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNA; JNF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and fraternities dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in initiating an Honors program of study, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education. That is, he succeeded in shaping one regional, run of the mill, Quaker school - Swarthmore College - into an intellectually-charged, academically-focused institution able to command national respectability, prestige, and financial support and commit itself to intellectual life at a time when higher education in the United States met with pressures against such change. Under Aydelotte’s leadership, Swarthmore was ... Read more
At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and fraternities dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in initiating an Honors program of study, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education. That is, he succeeded in shaping one regional, run of the mill, Quaker school - Swarthmore College - into an intellectually-charged, academically-focused institution able to command national respectability, prestige, and financial support and commit itself to intellectual life at a time when higher education in the United States met with pressures against such change. Under Aydelotte’s leadership, Swarthmore was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493719
SKU
V9781611493719
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About Ruth Shoemaker Wood
Ruth Shoemaker Wood is assistant dean for students at New York University.
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