October 7, 2005

Students' Lives on Today's Campuses

To the Editor:

Adam Weinberg of Colgate University showcases a minimalist approach to student-affairs programming ("An Alternative to the Campus as Club Med," The Chronicle Review, September 2). ... His thesis seems to be that highly structured student-life programming and accommodations deprive students of those teachable moments during which they can create their own networks and communities and thereby solve their own problems. ...

I posit that the examples cited by Dean

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