From the leftist listserve at UNC-Chapel Hill:
The Ford Foundation (http://www.fordfound.org/) has announced a new $2.5 million grants initiative to support scholarship, teaching, and civil dialogue about difficult political, religious, racial, and cultural issues in undergraduate education in the United States.
The goal of the Difficult Dialogues initiative (http://www.fordfound.org/news/more/dialogues/)is to help colleges and universities create a campus environment where sensitive subjects can be discussed in a spirit of open scholarly inquiry, intellectual rigor, and with respect for different viewpoints. The initiative will support new and existing courses and academic programs that increase knowledge of the religious and cultural complexity of American society and engage students in constructive discussion of conflicting viewpoints.
A “campus environment where sensitive subjects can be discussed in a spirit of open scholarly inquiry, intellectual rigor, and with respect for different viewpoints” ? isn’t that what universities are supposed to offer right now? What happened?
