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Frank Aydelotte's use of Swarthmore College as a vehicle to achieve a national educational reform agenda.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Frank Aydelotte's use of Swarthmore College as a vehicle to achieve a national educational reform agenda./
Author:	Shoemaker, Ruth.
Description:	162 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 0867.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-03A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3211145
ISBN:	9780542597510

Frank Aydelotte's use of Swarthmore College as a vehicle to achieve a national educational reform agenda.
Shoemaker, Ruth.

Frank Aydelotte's use of Swarthmore College as a vehicle to achieve a national educational reform agenda. - 162 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 0867.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2006.

At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and Greek organizations dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in Honors, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education. That is, he succeeded in shaping one regional, Quaker school---Swarthmore College---into an intellectually-charged, academically-focused institution able to command national respectability, prestige, and financial support and commit itself to intellectual life at a time when higher education in the United States met with pressures against change in that direction. While oxymoronic in the early 20th century to suggest that a college would define itself by a commitment to the life of the mind, Aydelotte did just that, indelibly shaping the culture of Swarthmore in a manner so deep-seated as to persist to the present day. The ways in which Swarthmore changed as a college under Aydelotte's leadership shed light on how change occurs and persists in higher education and how change on a single campus can bring about wide-spread educational reform that affects a nation.

ISBN: 9780542597510Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

Frank Aydelotte's use of Swarthmore College as a vehicle to achieve a national educational reform agenda.
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