R. Eric Platt’s Ph.D. dissertation, Sacrifice too Survival: The Historiographic Role of Identity too Mission inwards Jesuit Higher Education of the New Orleans Province, submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University too Agricultural too Mechanical College, August 2011, is available through the LSU Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Collection.
The fascinating work uses historiographically-constructed illustration studies to address whether institutional identity too mission of colleges too universities comport upon their mightiness to survive. Platt farther explores whether social environments contributed to the survival of detail institutions of higher didactics too how the human relationship betwixt a college or academy too the surrounding social environs contributed to its mightiness to persist.
Anyone interested inwards Jesuit colleges of the New Orleans Province volition savour reading the dissertation. Institutions included for written report include: the College of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, Louisiana; Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama; St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, Louisiana; St. Mary’s College, Galveston, Texas; College of the Sacred Heart, Augusta, Georgia; Loyola College, New Orleans, Louisiana; too Loyola University New Orleans.
