The Academy Then and Now
Academic leftists used to be interested in ideas and arguments; much less so today.
Microaggression or Neglect?
If it is really a kind of aggression to correct student grammar, composition teachers are unnecessary.
Study: UNC’s general-education core is weak
RALEIGH – General-education requirements at 11 University of North Carolina institutions are weak, according to a new study commissioned by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. UNC students are seven times more likely to be required to take a cultural diversity course than they are to study a foreign language, unlikely to be required to study Western history or civilization or even introductory literature, and not required at all to study United States history.
The ‘New Age’ university: at odds with American core principles
Jan 14, 2004 ·
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The last third of the twentieth century witnessed the rise and triumph of the post-modern or, better yet, the “New Age University,” whose core mission involves bringing America into a new age based on substantially altered principles and social forms.