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Lily Todorinova – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
This essay recontextualizes the Yale Report of 1828, arguing that the report's advocacy for classical liberal education should be understood alongside the racial concerns of its authors, some of whom were well-known colonizationists who viewed African American education as a threat to New Haven's social and economic stability. The Yale Report's…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Educational History, General Education, African American Students
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Cook, Paul G. – Across the Disciplines, 2014
This institutional autoethnography (IAE) explores the political and pedagogical dynamics of WPA and WAC/WID work within an exceedingly small, resolutely single-sex, and assuredly rural liberal arts campus ecology. Working within a theoretical framework informed by WAC/WID's historical commitment to increasing literacy in students from diverse…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Program Administration, Ethnography, Institutional Characteristics
Blai, Boris – 1979
Much of the institutional research conducted at Harcum Junior College, a private women's college, has focused on measuring the educational outcomes of students in relation to the college's objectives. Past studies have sought to determine how well Harcum prepares transfer curriculum students by analyzing rates of baccalaureate degree attainment,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria