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Addressing Intellectual Diversity From Within
In his essay, When Donors Pick the Courses, Professor Don Downs joins a growing chorus of academics troubled by the academy's failure to live up to its core educational purpose. Acknowledging the role that donors can play in bringing alternative -- and important insights -- to the often one-sided and politicized academy, Downs nevertheless finds that such funding offers an "imperfect remedy to an underlying disease." Admitting that the "perfect should not be the enemy of the possible," Downs joins ACTA in his call upon universities to rededicate themselves to "an ethical form of liberal education beyond politics."
Posted by Anne D. Neal on March 27, 2008 at March 27, 2008 10:13 AM
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