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To: LindyBill who wrote (45209)	5/18/2004 1:04:32 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793917

With not one of 55 elite colleges polled in a recent survey requiring a course in American history, most students aren't even aware of, let alone knowledgeable about, the origins, complexities and implications of the West's great tradition. LOL. I thought we were supposed to have learned American history by the time we got to college. I remember heavy American history in junior high. I remember state and local history in grade school. When I went to college, back in the good old days before multi-culturalism, back in the days when non-WASPS like me were very lucky to go college, there was no college requirement for American history. They taught college courses in college. College was supposed to be broadening. What happened? Did they stop teaching American history in junior high and the colleges failed to adjust to pick up the slack? Or what?

To: LindyBill who wrote (45209)	5/18/2004 1:20:52 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

God, this is awful. With not one of 55 elite colleges polled in a recent survey requiring a course in American history, The 'multicultural' lie By H. George Hahn II Baltimore Sun Shallow. Let's assume the 55 number is accurate. Hard to say since no source is cited. The reason American history is not required is, more likely, where the power resides so far as curriculum making is concerned. The power centers in most college/university curriculums are academic departments, not central committees and administrators. Thus, everything pulls to the periphery, tends to hollow out any core educational programs. Most programs that pass for "liberal" or "general" education are lists of items not subjects. Because of the periphery pull. If history gets to be core, for instance, it's enrollments soar, it can ask for more faculty lines, etc. So every other department in the university clamors for a spot in the core. And thus few, if any, get it. Just items on a list. Definitely not good but it has nothing to do with multiculturalism. Nothing.