What does liberal/general education mean, in promise and practice? Debate about what a college degree be is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago. This book respects the complexities and concepts of and , pushing at their historical and rhetorical legacies to redefine and reaffirm their potential in a new age. Faculty and administrators from across the seventeen colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university, re-examine these critical issues. Through recollection, vision, debate, and disagreement, the contributors state what the public university needs to be in the new century.weiterlesen