Virginia Tech
Graduate liberal studies: a nontraditional, interdisciplinary approach to higher education
Abstract
dc:description.abstractEducators, authors and policymakers continue to address the quality and focus of higher education in the United States. Some have noted the unprecedented number of students entering professional colleges and universities as a gateway to promising careers, while others have suggested that our schools lack the wherewithal to reconstitute the idea of a liberally educated person. Yet, over the past 16 years there has been considerable growth in the number of institutions that have established new graduate programs in Liberal Studies. This study examined the growth associated with those programs and addressed the issues of why the programs were started; whom they served; and, how they fit and operated within their host institutions. The methodology encompassed survey and case study research. The population consisted of the total number of schools actively affiliated with the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP).
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Education
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Educational Administration
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Educational Administration
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1991
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Madigan, John J.
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- McKeen, Ronald L.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Garrison, James W.
- Hereford, Karl T.
- Conley, Houston
- O'Callaghan, Phyllis
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-10142005-135810
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39926