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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school's substantial past in this volume. Amherst in the World tells the story of how an institution that was founded to train Protestant ministers began educating new generations of industrialists, bankers, and political leaders with the decline in missionary ambitions after the Civil War. The contributors trace how what was a largely white school throughout the interwar years begins diversifying its student demographics after World War II and the War in Vietnam. The histories told here illuminate how Amherst has contended with slavery, wars, religion, coeducation, science, curriculum, town and gown relations, governance, and funding during its two centuries of existence. Through Amherst's engagement with educational improvement in light of these historical undulations, it continually affirms both the vitality and the utility of a liberal arts education.

Education --- Education, Higher --- History. --- Amherst College --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Collegiate Institution (Amherst, Mass.) --- Amherst Academy (Amherst, Mass.) --- Five Colleges, Inc.

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A book-length conversation between two leading scholars on the themes and questions of Hispanic popular culture

American literature --- Hispanic American arts. --- Hispanic Americans and mass media. --- Hispanic Americans --- Popular culture --- Hispanic American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Mass media and Hispanic Americans --- Mass media --- Arts, Hispanic American --- Ethnic arts --- Stavans, Ilan --- Aldama, Frederick Luis, --- Aldama, Frederick Luis --- Stavchansky, Ilan --- Social life and customs. --- Amherst College

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Universities and colleges --- Education --- Social Sciences --- History of Education --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools --- Education, Higher --- History. --- History --- Five Colleges, Inc. --- Amherst College --- Hampshire College --- Mount Holyoke College --- Smith College --- University of Massachusetts Amherst --- Five Colleges, Incorporated --- Five College Consortium --- Five Colleges (Consortium) --- 378.4 <73 AMHERST> --- 378.4 <73 AMHERST> Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--AMHERST --- Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--AMHERST

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Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government's financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution. In The Student Aid Game, Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro explain how both colleges and governments are struggling to cope with a rapidly changing marketplace, and show how sound policies can help preserve the strengths and remedy some emerging weaknesses of American higher education. McPherson and Schapiro offer a detailed look at how undergraduate education is financed in the United States, highlighting differences across sectors and for students of differing family backgrounds. They review the implications of recent financing trends for access to and choice of undergraduate college and gauge the implications of these national trends for the future of college opportunity. The authors examine how student aid fits into college budgets, how aid and pricing decisions are shaped by government higher education policies, and how competition has radically reshaped the way colleges think about the strategic role of student aid. Of particular interest is the issue of merit aid. McPherson and Schapiro consider the attractions and pitfalls of merit aid from the viewpoint of students, institutions, and society. The Student Aid Game concludes with an examination of policy options for both government and individual institutions. McPherson and Schapiro argue that the federal government needs to keep its attention focused on providing access to college for needy students, while colleges themselves need to constrain their search for strategic advantage by sticking to aid and admission policies they are willing to articulate and defend publicly.

Student aid --- College students --- Education, Higher --- Etudiants --- Enseignement supérieur --- Scholarships, fellowships, etc. --- Finance. --- Aide financière --- Finances --- EDUCATION / Higher. --- Admit-deny. --- American Freshman Survey. --- Amherst College. --- Bowdoin College. --- Breneman, David. --- Campus-based programs. --- Clinton, Bill. --- Dartmouth College. --- Differential packaging. --- Direct Loan Program. --- Earnings gaps. --- Equal opportunity issues. --- Federal Perkins Loan program. --- Federal Work-Study (FWS) program. --- Gapping. --- Gender differences, merit aid and. --- Harvard College. --- Honors Scholarship program. --- Johnson, Lyndon. --- Kane, Tom. --- Loans. --- Meiszkowski, Peter. --- Merit aid. --- Middle-income melt. --- National policies, role of. --- Need-aware second review. --- Needs analysis system. --- Nixon, Richard. --- PLUS program. --- Pell grants. --- Revenue sources, changes in. --- Sauvageau, Yvon. --- Stafford loans. --- State and local government aid. --- Stecklow, Steve. --- Tax credits or tax deductions, for tuition. --- University of Vermont. --- Upper-income students, college selection by. --- Wellstone, Paul. --- Wesleyan College. --- Winston, Gordon. --- Work programs. --- Aid, Student --- Financial aid, Student --- Financial aid to students --- Student financial aid --- Student financial assistance --- Education --- College life --- Universities and colleges --- University students --- Students --- Finance

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Like the bird whose death signaled dangerous conditions in a mine, the demise of animals that once flourished should give humans pause. How is our fate linked to the earth's creatures, and the cycle of flourishing and extinction? Which are the simple workings of nature's order, and which are omens of ecological disaster? Does human activity accelerate extinction? What really causes it? In an illuminating and elegantly written account of the widespread reduction of the world's wildlife, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge poses these questions and examines humankind's role in the larger life cycles of the earth, composing a provocative general theory of extinction.

Biodiversity. --- Ecology. --- Extinction (Biology) --- Adansonia. --- Aesthetics. --- Algae. --- American Museum of Natural History. --- American School of Classical Studies at Athens. --- Amherst College. --- Arthropod. --- Awareness. --- Bacteria. --- Basset Hound. --- Biodiversity. --- Biologist. --- Broad-billed roller. --- Brown University. --- Carnivore. --- Cenozoic. --- Comoro Islands. --- Cretaceous. --- Darwinism. --- East Africa. --- Ecological crisis. --- Ecology. --- Ecosystem. --- Endemism. --- Eocene. --- Evolution. --- Extinction event. --- Extinction. --- Flora. --- Forest floor. --- Fossil collecting. --- Future Evolution. --- Genetic diversity. --- Geologist. --- Geology. --- Giant coua. --- Global temperature. --- Guineafowl. --- Herbivore. --- Holocene extinction. --- Hominidae. --- Homo sapiens. --- Human evolution. --- Human eye. --- Ian Tattersall. --- Imagery. --- In Specie. --- Jellyfish. --- Jurassic. --- Lemur. --- Living systems. --- Longevity. --- Mammal. --- Mesite. --- Mesozoic. --- Miocene. --- Multicellular organism. --- Northern Hemisphere. --- Oligocene. --- Ordovician. --- Organism. --- Outcrop. --- Overexploitation. --- Paleocene. --- Paleontology. --- Paleozoic. --- Permian. --- Pheasant. --- Plant. --- Pleistocene. --- Quaternary extinction event. --- Quinine. --- Rainforest. --- Reason. --- Result. --- River mouth. --- Rock (geology). --- Rocky shore. --- Sediment. --- Sedimentary rock. --- Serengeti. --- Silurian. --- Speciation. --- State of the Environment. --- Stratum. --- Tanzania. --- Tenrec. --- Terrestrial animal. --- Trilobite. --- Tropical rainforest. --- Unicellular organism. --- University of London. --- University of Minnesota. --- University of Virginia. --- Vegetation. --- Vertebrate paleontology. --- Vertebrate. --- Wetland. --- Yale University. --- Year.