Ten prominent scholars have asked the University of Chicago to halt a plan to revise its core curriculum, labeling the changes “dangerous” and “disturbing.” The group, Scholars for the University of Chicago, is concerned...
Ten prominent scholars from around the country are asking the University of Chicago to halt a plan to revise its core curriculum, labeling the changes “dangerous” and “disturbing.” The group, which calls itself Scholars...
University professors may enjoy sitting all day in a stuffy little room gabbing about academic politics, but why should the rest of the world pay any attention at all? Let me suggest a few...
After six months of visiting campuses, commissioning consultants and questioning administrators, teachers and students, a panel appointed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to recommend changes in the City University of New York held a...
Here is an innovative way to suppress the news: remove the newspaper. According to the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a nonprofit group in Washington dedicated to academic freedom, 453,123 newspapers were either...
When Candace de Russy taught a course called ”America and Historical Decline” a few years ago at the New School for Social Research, her favorite author was the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset....
A group of trustees and alumni who favor traditional curricula has released a new guidebook designed to help donors make “intelligent” gifts. Described in a news release as “the first book designed to show...
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