The Best Kind of College: An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges

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Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education. The fevered controversy over Americas educational future isnt simply academic; those who have proposed sweeping reforms include government officials politicians foundation officers think-tank researchers journalists media pundits and university administrators. Drowned out in that noisy debate are the voices of those who actually teach the liberal arts exclusively to undergraduates in our nations small liberal arts colleges or SLACs. The Best Kind of College attempts to rectify that glaring oversight. As an insiders "guide" to the liberal arts in its truest form the volume brings together thirty award-winning professors from across the country to convey in various ways some of the virtues the electricity and overall the importance of the small-seminar face-to-face approach to education as typically featured in SLACs. Before we in the United States abandon or compromise our commitment to the liberal arts-oddly enough precisely at a time when our global competitors are discovering emulating and founding American-style SLACs and new liberal arts programs-we need a wake-up call namely to the fact that the nations SLACs provide a time-tested model of educational integrity and success.