Creating Community on College Campuses

Irving J. Spitzberg, Jr. and Virginia V. Thorndike are President and Vice President respectively of The Knowledge Company. During 1989, they completed a year-long study of community on campus for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Spitzberg has written numerous books on leadership, race relations, comparative higher education policy, the international exchange of knowledge, and legal issues. Dr. Thorndike has written about contemporary French literary theory, foreign language pedagogy, and cross-cultural literacy.

"Building a vital community is a challenge not just for higher learning, but for society at large. In our hard-edged competitive world, more humane, more integrative purposes must be defined. Spitzberg and Thorndike have set forth a thorough and thoughtful report that is sure to enrich the debate over how to make colleges and universities more intellectually and socially vital communities of learning." — from the foreword by Ernest L. Boyer, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

• Foreword by Ernest Boyer Preface Acknowledgments Part I. INTRODUCTION 1. Overview 2. Campus Life in Perspective: Historical Snapshots Part II. DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY: CAN THEY COEXIST? Introduction 3. Race and Ethnicity 4. The Climate for Women Part III. THE BOUNDARIES OF AUTHORITY: REGULATING AND EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY Introductions 5. Alcohol Abuse 6. The Greeks 7. Harassment and Free Speech 8. Crime 9. Enforcement Part IV. THE LEARNING COMMUNITY: PROMISES TO KEEP Introduction 10. Student Priorities and Opportunities 11. Faculty Priorities and Opportunities Part V. COMMUNITY, COMPLEXITY, DIVERSITY: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS Introduction 12. When We Touch Common Ground 13. Compact for a Pluralistic Community 14. Recommendations for Community in Action Notes Bibliography Index