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3 weeks ago |
theepochtimes.com | Mark Bauerlein
CommentaryWhen I was teaching in the university in the 1990s, I always had two or three kids in a class of 30 who didn’t fit the high-achiever, go-getter mold. My institution was a selective one that sent a lot of undergraduates to law, medical, and business schools, but not these students. They didn’t seem to worry very much about grades.
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1 month ago |
sltrib.com | Mark Bauerlein
Two weeks ago a friend of mine at the National Endowment for the Humanities told me that a team from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency had arrived and was reviewing the books. Last week the hammer came down, as N.E.H. leaders told their staff members that cuts in personnel were coming, eliminating perhaps 80 percent of the agency.
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1 month ago |
mindingthecampus.org | Mark Bauerlein
If you were to imagine an ideal year of humanities education, it might include:Immersion in Greek or Latin, bolstered by many weeks in Greece or Rome;Coursework in philosophy, literature, and political theory, all the readings counting as canonical works;Small classes taught by experienced and charismatic instructors in a Socratic seminar style;And, finally, a small community of peers who share a similar interest in reading and discussing monuments of Western Civilization.
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1 month ago |
theepochtimes.com | Mark Bauerlein
Commentary The Executive Order from President Trump bearing on DEI activities has sent college administrators into a muted panic. For the first time ever, institutions that have embraced practices such as the requirement that faculty job candidates submit diversity statements as part of their application packet have reason to fear the Executive Branch. Previously, they worried only about the lower and higher courts striking down speech codes, affirmative action, etc.
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2 months ago |
jamesgmartin.center | Mark Bauerlein
In any discussion of the state of the humanities, the first fact is a numerical one. In School Year 2021-22, while a little more than two million people earned bachelors’ degrees in the United States, only 33,429 of them majored in English. That makes for a rate of 1.6 percent of the whole, one in 60 undergraduates. In 1970-71, a high point for English, the rate was one in 13.
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