Report Submitted to the Faculty of Cornell University, October 11, 1965
Title | Report Submitted to the Faculty of Cornell University, October 11, 1965 PDF eBook |
Author | Cornell University. Faculty Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction |
Publisher | |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Cornell University |
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Report of the Faculty Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction
Title | Report of the Faculty Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction PDF eBook |
Author | Cornell University. Faculty Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction |
Publisher | |
Pages | 51 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | College teaching |
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Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1392 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | Cornell University. Faculty Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | |
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Cornell '69
Title | Cornell '69 PDF eBook |
Author | Donald A. Downs |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2014-01-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801466121 |
In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend—and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you are going to die." Cornell '69 is an electrifying account of that weekend which probes the origins of the drama and describes how it was played out not only at Cornell but on campuses across the nation during the heyday of American liberalism.Donald Alexander Downs tells the story of how Cornell University became the battleground for the clashing forces of racial justice, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law. Eyewitness accounts and retrospective interviews depict the explosive events of the day and bring the key participants into sharp focus: the Afro-American Society, outraged at a cross-burning incident on campus and demanding amnesty for its members implicated in other protests; University President James A. Perkins, long committed to addressing the legacies of racism, seeing his policies backfire and his career collapse; the faculty, indignant at the university's surrender, rejecting the administration's concessions, then reversing itself as the crisis wore on. The weekend's traumatic turn of events is shown by Downs to be a harbinger of the debates raging today over the meaning of the university in American society. He explores the fundamental questions it posed, questions Americans on and off campus are still struggling to answer: What is the relationship between racial justice and intellectual freedom? What are the limits in teaching identity politics? And what is the proper meaning of the university in a democratic polity?
Graduate Teaching Assistants in American Universities
Title | Graduate Teaching Assistants in American Universities PDF eBook |
Author | John LeRoy Chase |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Graduate teaching assistants |
ISBN |
Local Knowledges, Local Practices
Title | Local Knowledges, Local Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Monroe |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2007-01-26 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0822973227 |
Cornell University has stood at the forefront of writing instruction, at least since the publication of William Strunk and E. B. White's classic, The Elements of Style, in 1918. For the past thirty years Cornell has been the site of a remarkably sustained and successful interdisciplinary approach to writing across the curriculum - a program that now coordinates nearly two hundred courses each semester sponsored by over thirty different departments.Local Knowledges, Local Practices provides an overview of Cornell's rich history and distinguished achievements in training students to write well. Including the views of professors representing a variety of disciplines - from animal science to political science, anthropology to philosophy, romance studies to neurobiology - this collection will serve as a resource for anyone interested in broadly conceived, discipline-specific writing instruction.