Description: Ryan's book is "the most important book now available on residential college life.... If you read only one book about residential colleges, this is the one to read"--the Collegiate Way website. Ryan's lively and eloquent account probes what this model of academic community can contribute to the development and education of the self.
Brief description: For more than twenty years, MARK B. RYAN was Dean of Jonathan Edwards College and a teacher of American Studies and History at Yale University. Subsequently, he was instrumental in founding the first residential college system in Latin America, at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla in Mexico, where he was Titular Professor of International Relations and History. At the ULDAP, he also served as Dean of the Colleges, Regent (Master) of Colegio José Gaos, and Co-ordinator of the graduate program in United States Studies. Originally from Houston, Texas, he holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale and has also taught at Williams College.
Review Quotes: "Seldom has anyone expressed so eloquently what this model of acaedemic community can contribute to the development and education of the self." --Richard H. Brodhead, president, Duke University "The most important now available on residential college life.... If you read only one book about residential colleges, this is the one to read." --Robert O'Hara, Collegiate Way website