Modern Wittenberg

About the Book

Whatever happened to America's small, private, residential, undergraduate, Liberal Arts Colleges? Will they survive the present contest with pragmatic publicly supported community colleges and the secular mega universities? The story of Wittenberg, one of the best of Ohio's many good Liberal Arts Colleges, provides answers to such questions. It looks at this critical period in their history giving hope that the very best of them will prosper. They are an endangered national resource that should be preserved and no more of them are being started. The book is written both for the casual reader and for historians and professional educators.

About the Author

William A. Kinnison is well qualified to write this story by long association with Wittenberg and deep love for this highly ranked, Ohio liberal arts institution. As the eleventh President of Wittenberg, from 1974 to 1995, he has been associated with Wittenberg virtually all his life. He grew up six blocks north of campus and graduated in 1954. After military service and graduate study at the Universities of Wisconsin and Ohio State, he served for thirty eight years in the offices of Admissions, Vice President, and President. Since retirement, he and Lenore Morris, Class of 1959, have lived just north of campus. He has written extensively about higher education and Wittenberg.