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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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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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lawtig02
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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...
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Report From The Front
Annotated Declaration of Independence
Students reading this founding document these days are focusing in, unprompted I add, on the grievances held against King George III.
"...a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
Annotated Declaration of Independence
Students reading this founding document these days are focusing in, unprompted I add, on the grievances held against King George III.
"...a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."