Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education by Arnn, Larry P

Hillsdale College Press. Hardcover. 0916308006 110 1000148 ISBN 0916308006 Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education by Larry P. Arnn. Hillsdale College Press. HB/DJ FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING 2004. FINE in FINE. The DJ is now in a protective mylar sleeve. This book can easily and economically be sent to international destinations with a 10-14 day delivery in most instances. At the time of publishing, the author was the president of Hillsdale College. Larry P. Arnn is the president of Hillsdale College (Michigan, United States). Born in Pocahontas, Ark., Arnn received his B.A. (1974) in Political Science and Accounting from Arkansas State University. He earned graduate degrees in Government from Claremont Graduate School ? an M.A. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1985. Arnn studied in England from 1977 to 1980, at the London School of Economics studying International History and then at Worcester College, Oxford University in Modern History. While in England, he worked as Director of Research for Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill. In 1980, Arnn become an editor for Public Research, Syndicated in the United States. He was one of four founders of the Claremont Institute in Claremont, CA, and served as Institute president from 1985 to 2000. In 2000, Arnn was named the 12th president of Hillsdale College. Arnn set the ambitious goal of $400 million for the college's Founders Campaign, beginning in 2001, and under his watch, several new buildings have arisen on the campus. Arnn has been a Trustee of the Heritage Foundation since 2002. In 1991, four former Hillsdale College professors, all members of the National Association of Scholars, criticized the college and its president, George Roche III. They wrote: "For years the Hillsdale administration has neglected its academic program to pay for 'outreach' activities designed to promote Dr. Roche, maintained a curriculum that requires no appreciable knowledge of Western culture, and used every possible means including dismissals and threats of lawsuits, to silence dissent of any kind among faculty and students." (Academic Questions, Fall 1991). Roche also urged a student, Mike Nehls, not to publish an independent newspaper, the Hillsdale Spectator. When Nehls went ahead with his plans and began criticizing Roche in editorials, Roche banned distribution of the paper on campus and then expelled Nehls. In 1987, distinguished assistant history professor Warren Treadgold was fired after publicly disagreeing with the dean of women Carol-Ann Barker; Hillsdale, which has no appeals or grievance procedures, refused to give any reasons for Treadgold's dismissal Hillsdale gained national attention in 1999, when Lissa Jackson Roche, the daughter-in-law of college president George Roche III, committed suicide shortly after alleging that she and her father-in-law had conducted an extramarital affair for over nineteen years. Roche's body was discovered in the college's Slayton Arboretum. George Roche III resigned as president of the college.[5][6] There is still some controversy over whether she committed suicide or was murdered, and a book was written on the tragedy, but there was no evidence of either the affair or the charge that Roche murdered the woman. Despite this incident, which inspired an episode of NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Roche's labors to improve the college remain respected, and the college's sports complex, built during his presidency, bears his name. Roche died on Friday, May 5, 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Larry P. Arnn currently serves as president of the college. During his tenure at Hillsdale, Dr. Arnn has led the school through an unprecedented expansion in student recruitment, faculty recruitment, expansion of private funding, expansion and renovation of campus buildings and relationships with both national and international world leaders, providing opportunities that excede most colleges and universities of much larger size. Arnn has studied at Oxford University in England and worked with Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Dr. Arnn is considered by many to be the foremost authority on Sir Winston Churchill. The strong history and political science at Hillsdale College, coupled with the on-campus teaching of adjunct faculty member Sir Martin Gilbert, makes Hillsdale a world leader in Churchill and World War II studies. Dr. Arnn has also established an annual Winston Churchill Dinner, featuring leaders such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (1989). Before coming to Hillsdale, Dr. Arnn served as president of the Claremont Institute. Dr. Arnn, who leads the private college in Michigan, is one of the highest paid liberal arts college presidents in the United States. He has a base salary of $331,773 in 2003-04, with benefits of $145,157, putting his total compensation at $476,930. . Fine.