| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 509 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Regina College in World War II -- Post-war bulge and bust, 1945-49 -- A new lease on life : Regina College in the 1950s -- Obeying the rules : student life in the 1950s -- The campaign for a full degree program -- Laying the foundations -- Defining a liberal education -- Building a campus -- Professional colleges, graduate studies, and research -- Campion and Luther Colleges -- The rise of the citizen student -- Radical campus -- Athletics -- The unravelling of Regina Beach -- Parity and the legacy of the 1960s -- University of Regina -- Appendix : Significant events in the history of the University of Regina |
| Summary |
Regina College, which was established by the Methodist Church in 1911, became the University of Regina in 1974. Formed amid the social movements and transformations of the sixties, the new campus grappled with questions about the nature of a liberal education, the balance between research and teaching, and whether the university's role was to criticize the status quo or to support it. James Pitsula shows that the University of Regina was a distinctive expression of the prairie tradition of pragmatic idealism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
University of Regina -- History
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University of Regina |
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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EDUCATION -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006287160 |
| ISBN |
9780773575790 |
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0773575790 |
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1282866265 |
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9781282866263 |
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077353055X |
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9780773530553 |
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