Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Duke, Alex, 1958-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.

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Details

Description

x, 214 pages; 22 cm

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.

Subject

• University of Oxford > Administration
• University of Cambridge > Administration
• University of Cambridge
• University of Oxford
• University of Oxford > History
• University of Cambridge > History
• Universities and colleges > United States > Administration > History > Case studies
• Educational innovations > United States > Case studies
• Educational innovations
• Management
• Universities and colleges > Administration
• Hochschulverwaltung
• Rezeption
• Geschichte
• College
• Wetenschappelijk onderwijs
• University of Cambridge
• University of Oxford
• Residentiële instellingen
• Onderwijsvernieuwing
• Universities and colleges > Great Britain > History
• Universities and colleges > United States > History
• Universities and colleges > United States > Administration > History
• United States
• Großbritannien
• USA

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• History
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. The Paradox of the English Residential College -- Ch. 2. The Whole Man and the Gentleman Scholar -- Ch. 3. Early Attempts: Harvard, Chicago, and Princeton -- Ch. 4. The Harkness Bequests: Harvard Houses and Yale Colleges -- Ch. 5. Claremont: The "Oxford Plan of the Pacific" -- Ch. 6. The University of California, Santa Cruz: "The City on a Hill."

ISBN

• 0300067615
• 9780300067613

LCCN

96016980

OCLC

• ocm34515575
• 34515575
• SCSB-8903264

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library