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The Good of This Place: Values and Challenges in College Education » (New Edition)

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Authors: Richard H. Brodhead
ISBN-13: 9780300106008, ISBN-10: 0300106009
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Richard H. Brodhead

Book Synopsis

This 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.

	Welcome home	3
	The freedom of this place	10
	A more exemplary life begun	17
	2000 and you	23
	What is fitting	30
	The way to worry	37
	Hazards of success	44
	What country, friends, is this?	52
	Of preparation for an unknown world	59
	Learning by choice and by chance	66
	Words at midterm	73
	On administration	83
	An anatomy of multiculturalism	88
	On residential education	98
	On sexual harassment	101
	Two writers' beginnings : Eudora Welty in the neighborhood of Richard Wright	104
	At the millennium : an agenda going forward	127
	Taking democracy to school	133
	Free speech and its discontents	154
	The new internationalism : globalizing comparative literature	168
	Remarks on the tercentennial of Yale University	185
	Selections from the report on Yale College education	189
	Baccalaureate readings	207
	Singing in the prospect of time	211
	Remarks on accepting the presidency of Duke University	217