Cradles of Conscience : Ohio's Independent Colleges and Universities

by OLIVER JOHN WILLIAM JR. (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780873387637
• ISBN10: 0873387635
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Summary

Because of its early history of westward expansion and its diverse population, Ohio is home to many independent institutions of higher education. They range from prestigious and richly endowed colleges and universities to local and regional ones that have well served their student populace over the decades. Cradles of Conscience is a collection of essays that relates the circumstances of the founding of 40 of these independent colleges and universities, recounts the history of each since its inception, and discusses how each has coped with modernization and how the pressures of the past 25 years have forced them to publicly evaluate and reassess their identities and missions. Historians and educators will find this book invaluable as a record of the successes and failures of educational strategy, as well as the history of higher education in Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(7)
James A. Hodges
Antioch College	8	(15)
Scott Sanders
Ashland University	23	(16)
John L. Nethers
Baldwin-Wallace College	39	(13)
Norman J. Clary
Bluffton College	52	(12)
Perry Bush
Buchtel College	64	(14)
George W. Knepper
Capital University	78	(13)
James L. Burke
Case Western Reserve University	91	(18)
Dennis Harrison
Cedarville University	109	(11)
Murray Murdoch
The University of Dayton	120	(14)
Erving E. Beauregard
Defiance College	134	(10)
Randall Buchman
Denison University	144	(14)
G. Wallace Chessman
The University of Findlay	158	(14)
Richard Kern
Franciscan University	172	(14)
John Carrigg
Franklin University	186	(8)
Kelli Nowlin
Helga Kittrell
Heidelberg College	194	(14)
David Gerard Hogan
Kimberly Roush
Hiram College	208	(9)
David R. Anderson
John Carroll University	217	(9)
Mary Ann Janosik
Kenyon College	226	(17)
Perry Lentz
Lake Erie College	243	(11)
Margaret Gross
Lourdes College	254	(9)
Nancy J. Brown
Malone College	263	(13)
John W. Oliver
Marietta College	276	(12)
James H. O'Donnell III
College of Mount St. Joseph	288	(11)
Kimberly J.M. Wilson
Mount Union College	299	(13)
John Saffell
Mount Vernon Nazarene University	312	(12)
Paul D. Mayle
Muskingum College	324	(14)
William Fisk
Notre Dame College	338	(20)
Patricia E. Harding
Oberlin College	358	(6)
Geoffrey Blodgett
Ohio Dominican University	364	(16)
Camilla Mullay
Ohio Northern University	380	(12)
Paul M. Logsdon
Ohio Wesleyan University	392	(12)
Richard W. Smith
Otterbein College	404	(17)
Elizabeth MacLean
The University of Rio Grande	421	(21)
Ivan M. Tribe
Tiffin University	442	(11)
Michael A. Grandillo
Urbana University	453	(9)
Lisa Oda Fede
Ursuline College	462	(14)
Anna Margaret Gilbride
Walsh University	476	(13)
Joseph Torma
Wilberforce University	489	(20)
Erving E. Beauregard
Wilmington College	509	(14)
Larry Gara
Wittenberg University	523	(16)
Richard T. Ortquist
The College of Wooster	539	(12)
James A. Hodges
Xavier University	551	(7)
John LaRocca
Appendix: Defunct Colleges and Universities	558	(11)
Erving E. Beauregard
Contributors	569	(5)
Index	574