Importing Oxbridge : English residential colleges and American universities / Alex Duke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duke, Alex, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Cambridge.

University of Oxford.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration--History--Case studies.

Universities and colleges.

Educational innovations--United States--Case studies.

Educational innovations.

Administration.

History.

United States.

University of Oxford--Administration.

University of Cambridge--Administration.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1996]

Summary:

Since the late nineteenth century, a number of American universities - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Chicago, the Claremont Colleges, and the University of California at Santa Cruz - have attempted to organize students and faculty into small undergraduate residential colleges similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge. Proponents of these projects believed that the residential college system would foster academic and intellectual values while countering what they saw as the deleterious effects on undergraduate education of the expansion of the university and the increasing research orientation of its faculty. This book tells the story of these efforts - some successful and some not - adding a new chapter to the history of higher education in America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.

ISBN:

0300067615

OCLC:

34515575