Editor's prologue / Robert Orrill
Re-imagining liberal education / Louis Menand
From discipline-based to problem-centered learning / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Naming pragmatic liberal education / Bruce A. Kimball
Cosmopolitan pragmatism : deliberative democracy and higher education / James T. Kloppenberg
Pragmatism, idealism, and the aims of liberal education / Charles W. Anderson
Innovation in the liberal arts and sciences / Douglas C. Bennett
Professing the liberal arts / Lee S. Shulman
The American tradition of aspirational democracy / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich
Liberal education and democracy : the case for pragmatism / Alexander W. Astin
Dewey versus Hutchins : the next round / Thomas Ehrlich
The stratification of cultures as the barrier to democratic pluralism / Troy Duster
Biology, pragmatism, and liberal education / Ernst Mayr
Liberal education in Cyberia / Peter Lyman
Placing liberal education in the service of democracy / Micholas H. Farnham
Education for a world lived in common with others / Lee Knefelkamp
Afterword : anchoring the future in the past : 1931-1997 / Rita Bornstein.