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Book

A fellowship in learning : Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008

Call Numbers

  • 378.774 F8191 (CEN)
  • H 378.774 F8191 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008]

Physical Description

431 p. : ill., port., maps ; 27 cm.

Contents

  • Founding,1833-1843: Beginnings
  • A frontier academy
  • "A school of progress," 1843-1863: Creating a college
  • Progress is halted
  • Struggle and survival,1863-1892: Recovery and resolution
  • A nineteenth-century college
  • Renewal,1892-1922: Advancing the College
  • Growth and change
  • A fellowship in learning,1922-1935: Building a vision
  • A Fellowship in Learning
  • Troubled times,1936-1953: Transitions
  • The College in World War II
  • The College in trouble
  • Innovation: The K Plan,1954-1971: The College recovers
  • Creating The K Plan
  • The College changes, the 1960's
  • The legacy of The K Plan,1972-1996: Maintaining The K Plan
  • A professor's President
  • Renewing The K Plan
  • Revisioning the college,1996-2008: Connections and communities
  • A Fellowship in Learning: At home in the world.

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