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Author
Publisher
Regnery Gateway
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
College curriculums that were once centered on instruction in the classics of Western civilization have become smorgasbords where almost anything qualifies as a course in the liberal arts and where political conformity is enforced by professors. Stanford University, caving in to demands from the Black Student Union (“We don't want to read any more dead white guys”), removed Homer, Dante, Luther, Darwin, and Freud from its course on Western civilization....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
James O. Freedman was President of Dartmouth College from 1987 to 1998. His books include Liberal Education and the Public Interest and Idealism and Liberal Education.
James Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, began life in a struggling middle-class Jewish family in a provincial industrial New Hampshire town. By the time of his death from cancer in March 2006, he was one of the most celebrated educational leaders of his generation,...