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Article: Cultural pluralism and civic values.(PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE)
- Article from:
- Liberal Education
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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THIS YEAR, AAC & U is celebrating ninety years of leadership to advance the aims and practices of liberal education. One of the many milestones in that history was a major AAC & U initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, from 1989 to 1993, titled Engaging Cultural Legacies: Shaping Core Curricula in the Humanities.
Engaging Cultural Legacies drew applications from more than 250 colleges and universities and worked intensively with sixty-three campuses to develop new intellectual frameworks for the exploration of global and U.S. cultures and to require at least two semesters of a common "cultural legacies" experience for all or most of their ...