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Importing Oxbridge : English Residential Colleges and American Universities
Importing Oxbridge English Residential Colleges and American Universities Author:Alex Duke Since the late nineteenth century, a number of prestigious American universities-including Yale, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Santa Cruz-have attempted to create small undergraduate residential colleges similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge. This book tells the story of these efforts-some successful, others n... more »ot-as American educators sought to foster the academic and intellectual values of the Oxbridge model as they perceived it.« less