The teaching of the history of science in a liberal arts college for women

The book is dedicated to the late Russian scientist Ernst Valentinovich Truskinov, Doctor of Biological Sciences (1941–2021), who would have celebrated his 80th birthday in 2021. Information about his life, research activities, and local history and community studies is presented here. Ernst Truskinov was an expert in the fields of potato breeding and seed production, biotechnology, and plant virology. In his late years, he was actively engaged in the problems of the history of science. This publication is addressed to a wide range of readers, such as biologists, lecturers and students of universities and colleges specializing in biology, agricultural sciences or liberal arts, as well as to everyone who is interested in the history of science.

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Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education ◽

10.1177/1474022218757893 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 101-112

Author(s):

Joyce Lu

Keyword(s):

Production Process ◽

Asian American ◽

Hip Hop ◽

Liberal Arts ◽

Liberal Arts College ◽

Racial Formation ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

The Us ◽

History Of ◽

White Hegemony

Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College examines the production of an Asian American hip-hop musical, directed by the author, at a private liberal arts college in the US. This article demonstrates how the production process was determined by the complex history of racial formation and relations in America. Those who were extremely attached to standardized Eurocentric practices of control in education could only read this complexity as disorder and found the process to be out of control or anarchic. The author claims, however, that the process was necessarily anarchic insofar as the production was undertaken as a decolonizing project; an attempt to undermine structures of domination and employ an ethical and democratic way of working that directly conflicted with the violent constraints of White hegemony that are present in elite educational institutions.

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Test-Optional Admission at a Liberal Arts College: A Founding Mission Affirmed

Harvard Educational Review ◽

10.17763/haer.77.4.b7m60878574m76w2 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 77 (4) ◽

pp. 429-435 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

BRIAN SHANLEY

Keyword(s):

Test Performance ◽

Liberal Arts ◽

Standardized Test ◽

Liberal Arts College ◽

Academic Preparation ◽

Standardized Test Scores ◽

Student Body ◽

History Of ◽

Test Optional ◽

The Impact

In this essay, Father Brian J. Shanley discusses Providence College's pilot program to eliminate standardized test scores from the required components of an admission application. Building on the college's ninety-year history of opening the doors of higher education to underrepresented populations, Providence College's test-optional policy is designed to ensure that students with strong academic preparation are not excluded from matriculating because of poor test performance. Shanley provides insight into the college's process of holistic application review and the institution's plan to study the impact of its new policy on the makeup and success of its student body.

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