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Book SynopsisThe Liberal Arts in Higher Education launches an institutional effort to establish a shared definition and to clarify the contours of the liberal arts and liberal education by extending centuries-old dialogue to the coeducational, Christian campus of Azusa Pacific University.
Table of Contentschapter 1 Introduction; The Classical Liberal Arts Tradition chapter 2 Modern and Postmodern Challenges to Liberal Education chapter 3 Integrating Liberal Arts and Professional Education chapter 4 Re-imagining a Distinctly Christian Liberal Arts Education chapter 5 John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University chapter 6 Robert M. Hutchin's The Higher Learning in America chapter 7 The Harvard Committee's General Education in a Free Society and the College of the University of Chicago's The Idea and Practice of General Education chapter 8 David Wagner's The Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages chapter 9 Ernest L. Boyer and Arthur Levine's A Quest for Common Learning: The Aims of General Education chapter 10 Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind chapter 11 Gary E. Miller's The Meaning of General Education chapter 12 Jerry G. Gaff's New Life for the College Curriculum chapter 13 Charles Anderson's Prescribing the Life of the Mind chapter 14 Bruce Kimball's Orators and Philosophers and Robert Orrill's The Condition of American Liberal Education chapter 15 Bibliography chapter 16 Index
