The good of this place : values and challenges in college education / Richard H. Brodhead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brodhead, Richard H., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yale University.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This eloquent collection of essays and speeches by Richard H. Brodhead addresses issues of importance to institutes of higher learning and to those who participate in them. As the popular Dean of Yale College from 1993 to 2004, Brodhead was involved in every aspect of undergraduate education-curriculum, faculty appointments, and student life-and occupied a unique position from which to ponder the ways that college can prepare young people to lead fulfilling lives. One of Dean Brodhead's responsibilities was to welcome new students to Yale at the annual Freshman Assembly, and this book presents his engaging remarks as he simultaneously reassured and challenged them. The later sections of the book range through various concerns of the contemporary university, from free speech and diversity issues to sexual harassment policy, residential education, the assessment of academic programs, and the complex and competing goals of college admissions. At once reflective, witty, and wise, this book speaks to students and educators alike, to all who hope to become-or shape others to become-thoughtful and constructive members of society.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Words For New Students

Welcome Home

The Freedom Of This Place

A More Exemplary Life Begun

2000 and You

What Is Fitting

The Way to Worry

Hazards of Success

What Country, Friends, Is This?

Of Preparation for an Unknown World

Learning by Choice and by Chance

Words at Midterm

Aspects of Education

On Administration

An Anatomy of Multiculturalism

On Residential Education

On Sexual Harassment

Two Writers' Beginnings: Eudora Welty in the Neighborhood of Richard Wright

At the Millennium: An Agenda Going Forward

Taking Democracy to School

Free Speech and Its Discontents

The New Internationalism: Globalizing Comparative Literature

Official Business

Remarks on the Tercentennial of Yale University

Selections from the Report on Yale College Education

Forms of Farewell

Baccalaureate Readings

Singing in the Prospect of Time

Remarks on Accepting the Presidency of Duke University

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611729721

9781281729729

1281729728

9780300127812

0300127812

OCLC:

952732416