Affirmation and adaptation: values and the elite residential college.(Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges) From: Daedalus | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Gomes, Peter J. | COPYRIGHT 1999 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The elite residential liberal arts colleges should reconnect with their religious past if they are to assume leadership in today's movement towards values formation. In competing with larger institutions, colleges have ignored the formative mission that has defined their identity in the past.

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