Looking Back, Looking Forward: 90 Years in Print

Liberal Education
Winter 2004
Volume 90, Number 1

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CONTENTS:

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

2. BIRTHDAY REFLECTIONS
   by Carol Geary Schneider

FEATURED TOPIC

6. BULLETIN 1915: TITLE PAGE AND CONTENTS, VOLUME 1, NO. 1

8. LOOKING FORWARD: LIBERAL EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
   By Bobby Fong
   The concerns of those who attended the first annual meeting of the new Association of American Colleges in 1915 have a contemporary ring. In a new century, while the common themes of professional education and education for values and citizenship have evolved since those beginnings, they continue to engage today’s Association of American Colleges and Universities.

14. 1915 THE PLACE AND FUNCTION OF THE PROPOSED ASSOCIATION
    By Robert L. Kelly
    The first president of the new Association succinctly outlined his vision of the organization as a national force for liberal education and addressed the criticism of skeptics. His leadership guided the early years of the Association.
    
    1915 COLLEGE EFFICIENCY AND STANDARDIZATION
    By S. C. Capen

20. ENVISIONING AN ASSOCIATION, 2004
    By Nancy Dye
    Colleges and universities, facilitated by President Kelly’s vision of a national educational consciousness, have over time reached broad agreement on the nature of undergraduate education.

26. 1915 THE MORAL & RELIGIOUS PHASES OF EDUCATION
    
    THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL OF EDUCATION
    By William Fraser McDowell
    The Christian faith of students is to be supported even as college education presents them with larger truths in the context of freedom of thought.
    
    METHODS OF ITS ATTAINMENT
    By Henry Churchill King
    A college education should offer the opportunity to use one’s full powers. Christian ideals are linked to educational ideals in the preparation of students for life’s tasks.

32. REFLECTIONS ON THE CHALLENGES TO THE CHURCH-RELATED COLLEGE, 2004
    By Frederick Rudolph
    Interpreting the ideas proposed regarding Christian ideals in undergraduate education reveals the stresses on the church-related colleges in 1915. With the founding of the new Association, they embarked on an adventure in shared aspirations.

38. MAKING THE CASE FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION
    By Elisabeth Zinser
    Celebrating successes in the era of access, we must move forward with creative and bold plans to renew the character of public liberal arts education in our new era.

42. LIBERAL EDUCATION AND GLOBAL COMMUNITY
    By Martha Nussbaum
    An education for global citizenship in an interconnected world has the possibility of transcending differences that divide us. Liberal education can cultivate the compassionate imagination that such a vision requires for our times.

PERSPECTIVES

48. TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP: REFLECTIONS ON A PARADOX OF ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
    By Philip A. Glotzbach
    Commitment to truth and commitment to friendship are hallmarks of an academic community. How do these play out in the life of the community? And how does one resolve the possible conflict between them?

56. BLENDING LIBERAL ARTS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION
    By E. Byron Chew and Cecilia McInnis-Bowers
    The challenge of educating to produce a liberally educated business professional led to the creation of courses that blend liberal arts education and business learning outcomes.

MY VIEW

64. YES, LET’S GET OUR LIBRARIES ONLINE
    By Deanna B. Marcum
    Massive digitization for widespread online access to the resources held in academic libraries is technologically possible. Can we build on existing efforts the collaborative commitment necessary to develop accessibility to educational resources?

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