PERSPECTIVES: Private Donors and State Governments are Pushing “Classic Studies” in Newly Created Centers, Institutes, and Programs

FROM THE GUARDIAN: Replacing what those donors and state legislators believe are left-aligned “woke” programs, including gender studies, women’s studies, ethnic-related studies, and civic studies, among others, “a small conservative revolution has swept the humanities at some U.S. colleges and universities. Its vanguard are new programs, called centers or institutes, that have begun cropping up at schools in recent years. Often funded by outside donors or earmarks from state governments, the programs tend to bear names featuring words such as “civic”, “freedom”, or “classical.” Read more here.

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