One would be hard pressed to find a college or university that has not been engaged in reforms to make the campus and curriculum more inclusive. The task of this essay is to chart the courses of two such streams, one often talked about as “internationalizing” higher education and the other as “diversifying” it, and to suggest that reconfigurations of the global landscape are moving the separate streams toward a promising confluence (Bennett 1994, Noronha 1992).

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The Future of Liberal Education & the Hegemony of Market Values: Privilege Practicality, and Citizenship
By Grant H. Cornwell and Eve Walsh Stoddard

Our argument in this essay is that the rhetorical opposition between “practical” and “liberal” educations is a false one based on exaggerated images of liberal arts as detached from the real world and on practical education as strictly technical…Today, even the purest liberal arts education is grounded in experiential learning, in technological literacy, and skills needed for living and working in a globalized social context.

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Peripheral Visions: Towards a Geoethics of Citizenship
By Eve Walsh Stoddard and Grant H. Cornwell

One of the distinguishing features of liberal arts education in the U.S. has been its commitment to preparing students to be citizens. This aspect of our mission is based on the notion that citizens in a democracy need to have the necessary information and both critical and deliberative reasoning skills in order to make good decisions as members of their societies.

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Toward an Interdisciplinary Epistemology: Faculty Culture and Institutional Change
By Grant H. Cornwell and Eve W. Stoddard

Much like larger societies, campus communities have dominant cultures…This chapter will use St. Lawrence University, a small liberal arts college in northern New York, as a case study to analyze the perils and rewards of interdisciplinary work at traditional institutions. We are specifically interested in analyzing how interdisciplinary teaching and collective interdisciplinary scholarship have, tentatively and partially, transformed institutional culture.

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Things Fall Together: A Critique of Multicultural Curricular Reform
By Grant H. Cornwell and Eve W. Stoddard

All the labels used to encompass curricular development beyond what has traditionally been understood as “Western culture” carry with them implicit political, metaphysical, and epistemological assumptions and commitments….[D]espite, or perhaps because of, its celebratory signification of cultural traditions, “multiculturalism” has serious limitations as a paradigm for the study of cultures and their interactions.

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Democracy and Difference: Emerging Concepts of Identity, Diversity, and Community
By Richard Guarasci and Grant H. Cornwell

We live in a time when our distinctions, our disconnections from one another, have become more important to some and more threatening to others than they have been at any other time certainly in the last half century.

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Residential Colleges: Laboratories for Teaching Through Difference
By Grant H. Cornwell and Eve Stoddard

Institutions of higher education are relatively privileged islands in the larger society that ought to provide experimental spaces for diverse constituencies to find some commonality without shedding their traditions and perspectives.

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Liberal Education as Intercultural Praxis: Citizenship in a Diverse Democracy
By Richard Guarasci and Grant H. Cornwell

If the project of liberal learning is to prepare students to live, work, and politically participate in a culturally diverse democracy, then the curriculum reforms that have occupied so much of the national press are necessary, but far from sufficient…Even if some faculty do not notice the irony of studying inclusiveness, egalitarianism, and democratic participation in a classroom where the teaching is hierarchical and learning is passive, students will.

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From Sugar to Heritage Tourism in the Caribbean: Economic Strategies and National Identities
By Grant H. Cornwell and Eve W. Stoddard

The ruined sugar mill is a cultural icon in representation of Caribbean tourism, on resort stationery, websites, cocktail coasters, and tourist art….But heritage tourism must not celebrate from a Eurocentric perspective, the plantation era. As Caribbean states develop strategies for tourism based on sustaining the natural environment and affirming the nation’s post-colonial cultural heritage, there is the need to ask how the story of sugar can be told without reinscribing colonial desire and Eurocentric viewpoints.

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Reading Sugar Mill Ruins: “The Island Nobody Spoiled” and Other Fantasies of Colonial Desire
By Eve W. Stoddard and Grant H. Cornwell

This is an essay in the politics and poetics of space. In one sense it is an inquiry into the semiotics of architecture, specifically of the eighteenth-century sugar estates of the Caribbean. In another sense it is an inquiry into the politics of memory, into the complicated and conflicting torrents of imagination and desire that construct the meaning of these spaces.

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Cosmopolitan or Mongrel?
By Eve Stoddard and Grant H. Cornwell

The article examines a Trinidadian calypso and its reception as a case study to weigh the discourses of hybridity, creolisation, and a local variant, “douglarisation”.

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