Practice for life : making decisions in college / Lee Cuba, Nancy Jennings, Suzanne Lovett, Joseph Swingle.

In this book, which is based on a five-year study following over 200 students at seven colleges, the authors argue that becoming liberally educated is a complex and messy process involving making decisions and learning from them. Colleges create spaces (both physical and metaphysical) in which stude...

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Main Authors: Cuba, Lee J. (Author)
Jennings, Nancy E. (Author)
Lovett, Suzanne, 1958- (Author)
Swingle, Joseph (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Physical Description:xi, 238 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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