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Title Remaking the American college campus : essays / edited by Jonathan Silverman and Meghan M. Sweeney ; foreword by Sharon Haar
Published Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

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Contents Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword by Sharon Haar ; Preface ; Introduction ; Space Matters: Rethinking University Spaces for and with Underrepresented Students (La'Tonya Rease Miles); Fifty Shades of Green: The Meshing of Culture, Teaching and Business in College Campuses' Sustainability Efforts (Mauricio Espinoza); Beds, Baths and Offices at the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies (Kelly Hankin, Tim Seiber and Julie Townsend)
A Bridge, Not a Wall: Uses of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College (Kate Culkin)Nice (Icha)Bod: How Washburn University's Mascot Came to Dominate Campus (Kelly Watt); The Campus That Oil Built: Visualizing the University of Texas' Extractive Wealth in the Age of the Corporate University (Sarah Stanford-McIntyre); Keep Morton Weird: Reading a Humanities Building in the American South (Nicholas C. Laudadio); Where (and When) Is College? (Miles McCrimmon); A Sense of Belonging: Using Siftr to Empower Freshmen (Margene Anderson)
Exploring Virtual Spaces Within the Community College Campus (Cristina DeLuca Savarese)The Invisible Adjunct: Inverse Panopticism in the English Department (Jane Weiss); Art Graft: Public Art and State Education (Igor Marjonović and Katerina Rüedi Ray); Access, Tradition and Belonging at "the Alma Mater of the Nation" (Jessica Cowing); Teachable Space: When the Spaces Where We Teach Become the Spaces That We Teach (Robert M. Bednar); Communitas and Liminal Space in the National Parks (Bill Atwill and Dan Noland)
West Point's Washington Hall: America's Panoptical Puzzle WILLIAM F. HECKER III About the Contributors ; Index
Summary "Focusing on the utopian visions and dystopian realities of American campus life, this collection of new essays examine the university architecture from the perspective of faculty and students. Topics include disability, sustainability, first-year writing, underrepresented groups on campus, online education, adjunct labor, and how funding works to physically shape colleges and university"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject College campuses -- United States
College environment -- United States
EDUCATION -- Higher.
College campuses
College environment
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Silverman, Jonathan, 1965- editor.
ISBN 9781476626345
1476626340