Author: chad wellmon
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On What is Missing
From 2014-2016, I chaired an effort at the University of Virginia to reform undergraduate general education. It was a brutal. But in May of last year, my colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences voted, with 83% in favor,…
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Rise of the Research University
The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook is out from the University of Chicago Press. Read Fichte, Humboldt, and Schelling alongside Eliot, Gilman, and Hutchins. The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into…
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Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
In the winter of 1872, Friedrich Nietzsche, then a classics professor still in his mid-twenties, delivered a series of lectures on the future of education in Germany . They were held in Basel, where Nietzsche was working then. When he…
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Field of Dreams: On Public Universities
Shortly before his death in in 2010, the historian Tony Judt recalled driving across the United States as a young man. Having come of age in the austerity of postwar Britain, Judt saw much to marvel over in 1970s America.…
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