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Author: Mary Thomas Crane ,
David Quigley ,
Andy Boynton ,
Allison Adair
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9781531501327
ISBN 10: 153150132
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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General education, the deadly term for introducing students to the varied wonders of academic discovery and learning, may well be a college's most important task. Sadly we often fail, as the political process results in dull compromises. The faculty at Boston College sought a different route to a better outcome, collaborating with a design firm to forge consensus on a truly fresh set of efforts. It's a great and heartening story, told with extraordinary frankness by several lead participants and concluding with several examples of the faculty's trials in trying something authentically new. And what the BC faculty and administration describe should be of crucial interest to every college seeking greater engagement of students with their own education, and with the faculty and the institution itself.---Robert Weisbuch, former President of Drew University,
Author Information
Mary Thomas Crane (Edited By) Mary Thomas Crane is the Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English and director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College. She works on early modern English literature and is the author of Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (Princeton University Press, 1993), Shakespeare’s Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (Princeton University Press, 2000), and Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). She has taught the Enduring Question course “Revolutionary Media: How Reading Changes Us.” David Quigley (Edited By) David Quigley is the provost and dean of faculties and a professor of history at Boston College. He was previously dean of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at BC. He is the author of Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (2004). He has taught the Enduring Question course “Worlds of Moby-Dick: What Historical Forces Shape a Book’s Greatness.” Andy Boynton (Edited By) Andy Boynton is the John and Linda Powers Family Dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He is the author of The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen and has a blog on leadership and innovation on Forbes .com.
