You May Want to Sit Down. And Then Get Your Kid an Application to Bob Jones University.
By Tom Scocca draws our attention to some absolutely shocking revelations that a study commissioned by a winger academic group uncovered when investigating the Maoists at Bowdoin College. Among the terrifying findings about the state of the liberal arts college today:
- By making SAT scores optional for applicants, Bowdoin is undermining the accuracy of the arbitrary and unaccountable U.S. News college rankings.
- Bowdoin fails to teach a high school curriculum (from, say, 1950).
- Bowdoin actively reaches out to recruit a variety of students to attend the college, broadening its applicant base.
- In its seminars for first-year students, who are adults, Bowdoin includes material suited to adult audiences.
- Students at Bowdoin engage in a variety of forms of consensual sex. [And, I would add, official college documents do not see fit to lecture their students about what kind of consensual sexual activities they should or shouldn’t be engaging in.]
- Courses at Bowdoin are often cross-listed among departments, emphasizing a shared tradition of knowledge rather than isolating academic work into narrow specialties.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what was that last one again?
- Courses at Bowdoin are often cross-listed among departments, emphasizing a shared tradition of knowledge rather than isolating academic work into narrow specialties.
Ok, all of these findings are unimaginable horrors, but cross-listing? Do you mean to tell me that Bowdoin are such moral monsters that they think that, say, Max Weber might be relevant to someone besides sociology majors? That’s it; I think a home-schooled BA is the only alternative. Well, maybe Liberty U — have they been thoroughly checked to make sure they don’t have any kind of pre-med or pre-law sequence that fails to preserve the strict segregation between disciplines that God intended?
[Via Michael Berube, a professor so dangerous and lacking in proactive strategic dynamism that he probably favors both interdisciplinarity and the sexual privacy of his students.]
UPDATE! Much much more here.