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Johnston College, Johnston Center, and a Context for Hampshire College

Contents

(introductory section)

• Preface
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Letter to Hampshire College

(main section)

• Johnston - The History
  • Conception, and the first Pilgrim Pines
  • The First Few Years
  • The Mid 1970s: Johnston at Its Zenith
  • The Late 1970s: End of a College, and Integration
  • The Next 15 Years: 1980-1995
• The Johnston Center Academic Program
  • Contracts and Classes
    • Curriculum Building, the Class Contract, and Evaluation
    • The Graduation Contract
  • Classes
  • Independent and Directed Studies
  • The Transcript
  • Programs
  • Cross-cultural and Off-campus Studies
• Johnston Complex, Politics, and the Living-Learning Community
  • Community Decisionmaking
  • Community Purpose
  • The Personal Experience: Becoming a Johnstonite
• Johnston as Innovator and Self-evaluator, together as Experimenter
• Conclusion
  • Johnston and Higher Education
  • Johnston and the University of Redlands
  • Hampshire
• Afterward
• References
• About this document ...