The Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University, 1636-1936

1936 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Harvard College ◽  
College And University ◽  
History Of

Sexual violence on US college campuses: history and challenges

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Renate Klein
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Campus Culture ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Policy Framing ◽  
College And University ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses the history of sexual violence in US universities to see where things have changed and where they have not. It first explains the relevant terms, such as ‘higher education institution’, ‘college’ and ‘university’ as well as ‘on campus’, ‘sexualised violations’, and ‘sexual misconduct’. It then reviews the early research which overlooked the gendered nature of campus sexual violence, the initial efforts that sought to ‘teach women how to stay safe’ which were critiqued for implicit victim-blaming, and more recent prevention approaches which focus on bystander intervention and the role of friends, peers and social networks in preventing violence. It also examines victimisation and perpetration, along with the interrelationships between perpetration dynamics, campus culture and institutional governance. The chapter concludes with an analysis of issues relating to policy framing and victims' formal reporting.

The Fireside Poets

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Oliver Wendell Holmes ◽  
College And University ◽  
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The 19Th Century

The terms “Fireside Poets” or “Schoolroom Poets” are used to designate a group of five poets—William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell—who were popular in America in the latter half of the 19th century. Their poetry was read both around household firesides, often aloud by a mother or father to the gathered family, and in schoolrooms, where they inculcated wisdom and morals and patriotic feeling in America’s young. While they continued to be taught in K-12 classrooms well into the 20th century, they lost their standing first with critics and then with college and university professors with the coming of modernism in the early decades of the 20th century. Despite scattered attempts to restore both their critical reputations and their place in the curriculum, they continue to have only a marginal place in the minds of those most familiar with poetry. The Postmodern/New Historicist challenges to modernism find little of interest in them—Belknap’s A New Literary History of America (2009), for instance barely mentions them—while the neo-Victorian turn toward socially conscious literature, which might be expected to retrieve them, has so far paid them little mind, though some attention has recently been given to their environmental and Native American themes. But this marginalization may more reflect the marginalization of poetry as a whole in American society at large than a true estimate of their worth to common readers. While young students no longer read Longfellow’s Evangeline or Bryant’s “The Chambered Nautilus,” these poets may yet form the vanguard of a restoration of the enjoyment of poetry in America.

The History of the Future

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-278
Author(s):  
Joseph Roach
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
College And University ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

The future of our field is obsolete. It has been accumulating for decades, and now we are stuck with it. Surveying the panorama of North America with a view framed by a Manhattan street ending at the Hudson, as in the old New Yorker cover, we might ask: Where is theatre research located? Can we find it on the map? It is not invisible, as some might complain. On the contrary, theatre research appears prominently as an array of widely planted scene houses, boxy protuberances rising above college and university performing-arts complexes, often located at the physical center of their campuses but rarely, if ever, close to their hearts. Set in concrete, they constitute what Harold Clurman, speaking at Murphy Hall for the Performing Arts at Kansas University in 1965, called “the Edifice Complex.” Our future, like fate, lies before us, but it was settled at our birth, when the buildings went up and acquired legions of technical specialists to service them. That's where the money went, and that's where it must go. Greater in number than the theatre scholars, well-intentioned but mostly vapid practitioners, acting with more or less skill, with more or less tenure, fill “slots” in largely indistinguishable seasons, block-booking their houses like mall multiplexes, from coast to coast. The reason that they are so visible on the map is that they stand isolated from everything else, in and out of the academy.

scholarly journals Provide History Of Religion And God

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Nicholas P. Ginex
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Public ◽  
College And University ◽  
Spiritual Nature ◽  
History Of

There is a need for high school, college, and university educators to introduce their students to a history of mankinds development of religions and beliefs in God. Regarded as too sensitive a subject, students are deprived of learning how mankind has evolved ways to establish moral and righteous behavior to maintain harmony among competing groups within a growing community. Based upon facts and findings surfaced by such respected Egyptologists as James H. Breasted and E.A. Wallis Budge, this author conclusively reveals how the first formal religion of Egypt has been emulated by the Judaic, Christian, and Islamic religions. Historical findings provide meaningful evidence of the spiritual nature of man, the emergence of one God Amen, the development of the concepts of truth, a soul, hereafter, Son of God, and a universal God. These findings afford greater insights in the fields of theology, humanities, psychology, and sociology studies. More importantly, a greater understanding of the nature of man can energize religious leaders and the public to effect possible solutions with the assistance of those with perceptive minds and love of humanity.

scholarly journals History of North Carolina Libraries and Librarianship: A Bibliography, Part II

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Wiley J. Williams
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Library History ◽  
College And University ◽  
Library Associations ◽  
History Of

The first installment of this four-part bibliography, including general historical works about North Carolina public libraries, and histories of libraries from (alphabetically) Alamance through Guilford counties, was published in the Spring 2004 issue of North Carolina Libraries. Part two contains histories of public libraries from Halifax through Yadkin Counties, part three will include references to general works on North Carolina library history and histories of special libraries in thestate, and part four will describe materials on college and university libraries and library associations. Many of the works about individual libraries may not be considered traditional library history, however, an effort has been made to include all works that may be of use to librarians and researchers who are studying specific institutions.

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