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Creating Community on College Campuses addresses the most critical and difficult issues facing higher education in the 1990s: improving the quality of teaching and learning, raising academic standards, protecting freedom of expression, and simultaneously enhancing community of the whole and community of the parts. This book offers an understanding of community as a complex concept, one that incorporates the values of a democratic society and encourages learning and participation by all citizens of the campus, and discusses topics such as race and ethnicity, the climate for women, harassment and free speech, alcohol, crime, Greek life, and interaction among faculty and students. The authors conclude with concrete recommendations to support the implementation of pluralistic learning communities on our nation's campuses.
"Building a vital community is a challenge not just for higher learning, but for society at large. In our hard-edged competitive world, more humane, more integrative purposes must be defined. Spitzberg and Thorndike have set forth a thorough and thoughtful report that is sure to enrich the debate over how to make colleges and universities more intellectually and socially vital communities of learning." — from the foreword by Ernest L. Boyer, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Foreword by Ernest Boyer
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. INTRODUCTION
1. Overview
2. Campus Life in Perspective: Historical Snapshots
Part II. DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY: CAN THEY COEXIST?
Introduction
3. Race and Ethnicity
4. The Climate for Women
Part III. THE BOUNDARIES OF AUTHORITY: REGULATING AND EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY
Introductions
5. Alcohol Abuse
6. The Greeks
7. Harassment and Free Speech
8. Crime
9. Enforcement
Part IV. THE LEARNING COMMUNITY: PROMISES TO KEEP
Introduction
10. Student Priorities and Opportunities
11. Faculty Priorities and Opportunities
Part V. COMMUNITY, COMPLEXITY, DIVERSITY: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS
Introduction
12. When We Touch Common Ground
13. Compact for a Pluralistic Community
14. Recommendations for Community in Action
Notes
Bibliography
Index