Creating a New Core Curriculum

A blog devoted to discussion of core curriculum and general education requirements, written in the context of my service as chair of a committee to draft a new core for Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university in Silicon Valley.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Bok- something tells me to stop trusting this guy...

I'm reading the chapter on diversity, and I keep bumping into something called a "Third World Center" that "blacks" want on college campuses. Hello? A quick internet search reveals that there are 779 websites mentioning "Third World Center" in the education domain .edu.... (the two prominent ones seem to be Brown and Princeton, hmmmm...). Meanwhile there are 219,000 websites refering to "Multicultural Center"... So, if Bok is this parochial on diversity, why bother reading the rest of the chapter? Because I have to- guilt compunction? So the rest is predictable, bordering on inane. He's losing credibility fast.

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