Arthur Levine

The Quiet Revolution: Eleven Facts about Multiculturalism and the Curriculum.

Abstract The competing claims about multiculturalism boom loudly today. Some say the college curriculum has been largely impermeable to multiculturalism: that it remains unalterably “Eurocentric,” ignoring- or, at best, marginalizing - diversity concerns. Others counter that higher education has sold its soul in the name of multiculturalism: that the academy currently is purging the curriculum of its historic Western canon and replacing it willynilly with non-Western, ethnic, and gender studies.

Collegiate Life: An Obituary

Abstract In 1858, John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote The Idea of a University. His ideal was a residential community of students and teachers devoted to the intellect. To him, a college was “an alma mater, knowing her children one by one, not a foundry, or a mint, or a treadmill.” Given a choice between an institution that dispensed with “residence and tutorial superintendence and gave its degrees to any person who passed an examination in a wide range of subjects” or “a university which … merely brought a number of young men together for three or four years,” he chose the latter.