donbosco
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UNC System News: Foundations of American Democracy
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I'll take the under on that easily.
The better question: how many of them could describe what the federalist papers are.
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It would never happen, but the revised version of The 1619 Project is really an extraordinary work of cultural history. 99% of the critique was of a few sentences in the initial version, which the authors have now addressed to ensure accuracy. I've read it three times now and I'm amazed by (1) the quality of the writing and analysis, and (2) the lack of overt partisanship. It's not a "foundational" work, of course, but people who buy into the demagoguery of it are really missing out.
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No doubt, but MAGA Republicans would probably rather die than allow the 1619 Project to be used in any educational institution they control, which includes every public school and university in NC.
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I agree on the quality of the work...except...to assert that there were no enslaved Africans in the territory that would become the United States until 1619 is just wrong. To be sure, 1619 is a "foundational historical date" as Nikole Hannah-Jones asserts, but enslaved Africans had journeyed alongside Spaniards in the lands that would become the United States at least 50 years prior (St. Augustine was founded in 1565 -- The Spanish Captain Explorer Juan Pardo took an expedition into NC as far as Joara, in modern Burke County in 1567 and enslaved Africans were part of that party.
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By Lloyd Kramer of the UNC History Department.
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Past Rhymes With Present Times: The Foundations of American Democracy - Chapelboro.com
The Board of Governors (BOG) that oversees the University of North Carolina’s sixteen constituent institutions has created a new graduation requirement for students who enroll at UNC-system universities this fall.
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UNC at Chapel Hill at Flint, Michigan
The first thing I noticed while scrolling through a batch of documents I got for a story about UNC-CH a couple months ago was the name “Prometheus Task Force,” which is just the kind of high-falutin title to catch my attention. Then I noticed some data about Kettering University—which I admit I had to Google—and the phrase “UNC School of Engineering — Kettering Campus of Automotive Excellence.”Once I slowed down, I realized I was reading a proposal for UNC-CH to purchase an engineering school in Michigan and run it as a satellite campus. The plan emerged last spring as a way for UNC-CH to meet a proposal in the General Assembly that the university open an engineering school. Talks were serious enough that Chapel Hill officials were in touch with Kettering’s president, the documents show.
UNC-CH says the plan is dead now. But the fact that it was seriously considered speaks to the shifting economics of higher ed, as university officials try to develop programs that will meet workforce needs. And it offers a little insight into how UNC-CH officials are trying to avoid their new engineering school competing with N.C. State’s program.
The Quad: UNC at Chapel Hill at Flint, Michigan
The inside story of why UNC-Chapel Hill considered opening a campus in Michigan. Plus tenure attacks and job changes.
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This seems to be a proposition many colleges are exploring. I noticed Vanderbilt is thinking about opening a campus in downtown San Francisco --UNC at Chapel Hill at Flint, Michigan
The first thing I noticed while scrolling through a batch of documents I got for a story about UNC-CH a couple months ago was the name “Prometheus Task Force,” which is just the kind of high-falutin title to catch my attention. Then I noticed some data about Kettering University—which I admit I had to Google—and the phrase “UNC School of Engineering — Kettering Campus of Automotive Excellence.”
Once I slowed down, I realized I was reading a proposal for UNC-CH to purchase an engineering school in Michigan and run it as a satellite campus. The plan emerged last spring as a way for UNC-CH to meet a proposal in the General Assembly that the university open an engineering school. Talks were serious enough that Chapel Hill officials were in touch with Kettering’s president, the documents show.
UNC-CH says the plan is dead now. But the fact that it was seriously considered speaks to the shifting economics of higher ed, as university officials try to develop programs that will meet workforce needs. And it offers a little insight into how UNC-CH officials are trying to avoid their new engineering school competing with N.C. State’s program.
The Quad: UNC at Chapel Hill at Flint, Michigan
The inside story of why UNC-Chapel Hill considered opening a campus in Michigan. Plus tenure attacks and job changes.
Vanderbilt Reportedly Considering a San Francisco Campus
Vanderbilt University is in talks with the city of San Francisco to establish a campus there, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A Vanderbilt spokesperson confirmed to the Chronicle that the university—which is based in Nashville, Tenn., but also has satellite campuses in New York City and...