September 6, 2002

A College President Worries About an 'Unreflective' Focus on Ourselves

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Liberal-arts colleges have become laboratories for students and faculty members to attempt to sort through the issues surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, says M. Lee Pelton, president of Willamette University and a former dean at Dartmouth College and Colgate University. But much of that discussion has focused inward -- on the United States' identity -- rather than on a search for a better understanding of the rest of the world, he adds.

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