By C. In keeping John C. Calhoun’s name on a college, Yale University says it welcomes the chance to teach American history. Here’s how that has worked out on three other campuses. More...
30 avril 2016
30 avril 2016
Students Vent Frustrations as Yale Leaves a Slavery Champion’s Name Intact
By . Yale University’s decision on Wednesday to keep the name of John C. Calhoun, a vocal supporter of slavery, on a residential college touched off a widespread, passionate reaction on a campus that has been roiled by racial tension for much of the academic year. More...
30 avril 2016
Many Colleges Profited From Slavery. What Can They Do About It Now?
By C. Like many campuses, Georgetown University is scrutinizing its historical ties to slavery. But unlike most, it’s going beyond plaques and apologies — actually tracking down the descendants of slaves it sold in the early 19th century. More...
30 avril 2016
Ron Heisler Collection: a radical repository
By Matthew Reisz. Senate House Library makes public a sample of a remarkable archive of radical politics. More...
29 avril 2016
Marie Duval: pioneer cartoonist’s work revived by online archive
By Matthew Reisz. Work on University of Chester archive earns researchers rebuke for laughing in library. More...
28 avril 2016
Opinion: Beyond the 4-year degree
By Jeffrey J. Selingo, Los Angeles Times. The assumption that a college education should take four years is baked into American culture. Colleges in the colonial days were founded on the premise of a four-year degree, a concept imported from Europe. Harvard University experimented with a three-year degree when it was founded in 1636, but the test was short-lived, and the four-year degree has been the standard ever since. More...
26 avril 2016
Genetics: what it is that makes you clever – and why it’s shrouded in controversy
By . Francis Galton, who was Charles Darwin’s cousin, is considered the father of eugenics and was one of the first to formally study intelligence. His 1869 work Hereditary Genius argued that superior mental capabilities were passed down via natural selection – confined to Europe’s most eminent men, a “lineage of genius”. Barring a few exceptions, women, ethnic minorities and lower socioeconomic communities were labelled as inferior in intelligence. More...
26 avril 2016
New Books and MIT's Uncommon Sense
By Barbara Fister. The other day I saw a notice that two more book have been published by the WAC Clearinghouse. One in particular intrigued me. Nathan Shepley’s Placing the History of College Writing: Stories from the Incomplete Archive looks at the history of composition at two institutions, the University of Houston and Ohio University in Athens, Ohio before 1950. Read more...
24 avril 2016
Concealed in Our Classrooms
By Nate Kreuter. On Aug. 1, 1966, in the city of Austin, Texas, on the campus of the University of Texas, gunman Charles Whitman arguably began the tragic trend of campus shootings that continues today. When I was in my second year of graduate school, attending classes and teaching quite literally in the shadow of the tower that Whitman had fired from, Texas Monthly published an excellent reflection on the event to mark its 40th anniversary. During Whitman’s assault from UT Austin’s iconic central tower, locals with firearms of their own returned fire. Read more...
24 avril 2016
A Civil Rights Hero Who Disappeared
By Scott Jaschik. Many remember James Meredith, the first black person to enroll at the University of Mississippi. But Lloyd Gaines is not a name widely known or taught, though he was the plaintiff in a suit that led to a 1938 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that Missouri had to provide, in the state, an opportunity for black students to go to law school. Until then, Missouri had a policy of paying for black students like Gaines to attend law school out of state, rather than at the all-white University of Missouri law school. Read more...
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