Contending with Modernity

By Philip Gleason,

Book cover of Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

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How did Catholic colleges and universities deal with the modernization of education and the rise of research universities? In this book, Philip Gleason offers the first comprehensive study of Catholic higher education in the twentieth century, tracing the evolution of responses to an increasingly secular educational system. At the beginningā€¦

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I read this book the summer I became dean. 

I wanted to get a sense of the recent history of American Catholic higher education, and this book offered a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of American Catholic higher educationā€”just what I was looking for and felt I needed as an administrator at a Catholic university.

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