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Book Berea College

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shannon H. Wilson
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2006-03-03
  • ISBN : 0813138191
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Berea College written by Shannon H. Wilson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-03-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motto of Berea College is "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," a phrase underlying Berea's 150-year commitment to egalitarian education. The first interracial and coeducational undergraduate institution in the South, Berea College is well known for its mission to provide students the opportunity to work in exchange for a tuition-free quality education. The founders believed that participation in manual labor blurred distinctions of class; combined with study and leisure, it helped develop independent, industrious, and innovative graduates committed to serving their communities. These values still hold today as Berea continues its legendary commitment to equality, diversity, and cultural preservation and, at the same time, expands its mission to include twenty-first-century concerns, such as ecological sustainability. In Berea College: An Illustrated History, Shannon H. Wilson unfolds the saga of one of Kentucky's most distinguished institutions of higher education, centering his narrative on the eight presidents who have served Berea. The college's founder, John G. Fee, was a staunch abolitionist and believer in Christian egalitarianism who sought to build a college that "would be to Kentucky what Oberlin was to Ohio, antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, anti-sin." Indeed, the connection to Oberlin is evident in the college's abolitionist roots and commitment to training African American teachers, preachers, and industrial leaders. Black and white students lived, worked, and studied together in interracial dorms and classrooms; the extent of Berea's reformist commitment is most evident in an 1872 policy allowing interracial dating and intermarriage among its student body. Although the ratio of black to white students was nearly equal in the college's first twenty years, this early commitment to the education of African Americans was shattered in 1904, when the Day Law prohibited the races from attending school together. Berea fought the law until it lost in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1908 but later returned to its commitment to interracial education in 1950, when it became the first undergraduate college in Kentucky to admit African Americans. Berea's third president, William Goodell Frost, shifted attention toward "Appalachian America" during the interim, and this mission to reach out to Appalachians continues today. Wilson also chronicles the creation of Berea's many unique programs designed to serve men and women in Kentucky and beyond. A university extension program carried Berea's educational opportunities into mountain communities. Later, the New Opportunity School for Women was set up to help adult women return to the job market by offering them career workshops, job experience on campus, and educational and cultural enrichment opportunities. More recently, the college developed the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, designed to reduce the isolation of African Americans in Appalachia and encourage cultural literacy, academic achievement, and community service. Berea College explores the culture and history of one of America's most unique institutions of higher learning. Complemented by more than 180 historic photographs, Wilson's narrative documents Berea's majestic and inspiring story.

Book Berea s First 125 Years  1855 1980

Download or read book Berea s First 125 Years 1855 1980 written by Elisabeth Sinclair Peck and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)

Book The Serials Directory

Download or read book The Serials Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of Berea College and Allied Schools

Download or read book Bulletin of Berea College and Allied Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Thousand Notable Americans

Download or read book Two Thousand Notable Americans written by J. M. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Berry College

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  • Author : Ouida Dickey
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2011-08-15
  • ISBN : 0820330795
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Berry College written by Ouida Dickey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, a detailed and comprehensive history of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia, reviews its humble beginnings in 1902 as a trade school for rural Appalachian youth to its present-day standing among the Southeast's best liberal arts colleges.

Book B for Berea

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  • Author : Tom Chase
  • Publisher : The Overmountain Press
  • Release : 2000-11
  • ISBN : 9781570721540
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book B for Berea written by Tom Chase and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercollegiate basketball began at Berea, flourished, and then struggled to remain competitive. This book talks about the era of the dynamic coaches who built the Berea program: Waldemar Noll, Oscar Gunkler, Roger Clark, and C H 'Monarchy' Wyatt.

Book Harvard Alumni Directory

Download or read book Harvard Alumni Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue

Download or read book General Catalogue written by Berea College and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Boards Lead Small Colleges

Download or read book How Boards Lead Small Colleges written by Alice Lee Williams Brown and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Boards Lead Small Colleges is designed to appeal to anyone with a special interest in the future of small private colleges, which play a critical role in the world of higher education.

Book Catalogue of the Officers and Students

Download or read book Catalogue of the Officers and Students written by Berea College and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Campus Uprisings

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  • Author : Ty-Ron M.O. Douglas
  • Publisher : Teachers College Press
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0807778451
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Campus Uprisings written by Ty-Ron M.O. Douglas and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that “White supremacist groups are targeting college campuses like never before,” while the appearance of nooses, swastikas, and racial epithets are increasing across the United States. This timely volume presents a wide-range of perspectives to offer readers practical steps and policy options for creating campus structures that are fair and inclusive to students of all races and social statuses. It features chapters from a university president, department chair, a campus chaplain, cultural center directors, faculty, and students—including voices from the University of Missouri and Howard University during their recent series of protests. Campus Uprisings demonstrates the power and value of principled non-violent activism to provoke change and provides thoughtful strategies to help universities manage conflict and racial tension. Book Features: Recommendations drawn from both scholarly analyses focused on practice and reflections from actual practitioners.“Voices from the Field” presents real-time perspectives of activists who are currently working toward societal change. An intergenerational relevance with chapters on the Civil Rights era protests and current movements, such as Me Too and Black Lives Matter. Contributors: James Alford, Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, Lisa Bass, Barbara Boakye, Mahauganee Shaw Bonds, Travis D. Boyce, Winsome M. Chunnu, Lucy Douglas, Ty-Ron M.O. Douglas, Brittany Fatoma, Sydney Freeman Jr., Shaun R. Harper, Brian Heilmeier, Dena Lane-Bonds, Kofi LeNiles, Jonathan A. McElderry, Kelsey Morris, Ransford Pinto, Stephanie Hernandez Rivera, Kmt G. Shockley, Stephanie Shonekan, Ivory A. Toldson, Evan Willis, and Christine Woods

Book Appalachian Values

Download or read book Appalachian Values written by Loyal Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachian Values is a series of essays written to counter the persistent negative stereotypes about Appalachian people. The stories used to illustrate various values are accompanied by powerful photographes of appalachian people and settings.

Book Other People s Colleges

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  • Author : Ethan W. Ris
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-06-27
  • ISBN : 0226820238
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Other People s Colleges written by Ethan W. Ris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education. For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, Ethan Ris argues in Other People’s Colleges, the reform impulse is baked into American higher education, the result of generations of elite reformers who have called for sweeping changes in the sector and raised existential questions about its sustainability. When that reform is beneficial, offering major rewards for minor changes, colleges and universities know how to assimilate it. When it is hostile, attacking autonomy or values, they know how to resist it. The result is a sector that has learned to accept top-down reform as part of its existence. In the early twentieth century, the “academic engineers,” a cadre of elite, external reformers from foundations, businesses, and government, worked to reshape and reorganize the vast base of the higher education pyramid. Their reform efforts were largely directed at the lower tiers of higher education, but those efforts fell short, despite the wealth and power of their backers, leaving a legacy of successful resistance that affects every college and university in the United States. Today, another coalition of business leaders, philanthropists, and politicians is again demanding efficiency, accountability, and utility from American higher education. But, as Ris argues, top-down design is not destiny. Drawing on extensive and original archival research, Other People’s Colleges offers an account of higher education that sheds light on today’s reform agenda.

Book The College Media Directory

Download or read book The College Media Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: