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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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1 author picked Contending with Modernity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read this book the summer I became dean.Ā
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 educationājust what I was looking for and felt I needed as an administrator at a Catholic university.
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