Remaking College

Rebecca Chopp is the chancellor of the University of Denver, where she is leading a comprehensive effort to transform the student experience, expand the design of knowledge, and engage with the liberal arts in new ways. Previously she served as the president of Swarthmore College and Colgate University. Susan Frost is a consultant and researcher who works with college and university leaders to help them form and execute strategic plans, engage faculty in shaping their institutions' futures, and develop academic programs as major fundraising targets. Daniel H. Weiss is the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For over a decade, he led liberal arts institutions, serving as the president of Haverford College and Lafayette College.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Updating the Liberal Arts Mission for the Twenty-First CenturyPart I: Reimagining the Liberal Arts College in AmericaChapter 1. Remaking, Renewing, Reimagining: The Liberal Arts College Takes Advantage of ChangeChapter 2. Challenges and Opportunities in the Changing LandscapePart II: An Opportunity to Lead Chapter 3. Economics and AffordabilityChapter 4. Using Governance to Strengthen the Liberal ArtsChapter 5. Orchestrating Shared GovernancePart III: Knowledge, Learning, and New TechnologiesChapter 6. Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges in TeachingChapter 7. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and the Liberal ArtsChapter 8. Technology in Education: Revolution or Evolution?Chapter 9. You Can Run, but You Can't HideChapter 10. Technology, Learning, and Campus CulturePart IV: Collaboration and Partnerships Chapter 11. The Future of Liberal Arts Colleges Begins with CollaborationChapter 12. The College without Walls: Partnerships at Home and AbroadChapter 13. The Networked College—Local, Global, VirtualPart V: Residential Communities and Social PurposeChapter 14. The Liberal Arts College UnboundChapter 15. "Glowing against the Gray, Sober against the Fire": Residential Academic Communities in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 16. The Intercultural Connection: Students and the Liberal ArtsPart VI: Future Prospects for the Liberal Arts College Chapter 17. More to Hope Than to Fear: The Future of the Liberal Arts CollegeContributorsIndex

Two presidents assert that higher education will have to address spiraling costs and that some college-particularly regional liberal arts colleges-will have trouble surviving if they don't. Philadelphia Inquirer Higher education is going under the microscope to prove its value. Add to that a growing chorus of pundits who believe that a liberal arts education is a waste of time and a relic of the past. But two college presidents argue in [ Remaking College] that a liberal arts education is, in fact, crucial to not just boosting the economy but to solving many of the world's problems. University Business This spirited collection of essays offers lessons in what the rhetorician Richard Lanham once called 'the oldest class in American education, the Seminar on the Future of the Liberal Arts.' Across varying discussions, these leaders argue that 'flexibility' will continue to characterize the agility and adaptability that the liberal arts college produces in its graduates and reflects in its own longevity. The Key Reporter