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...that has not yet been chosen, will bring together between 50 and 100 college students to study literature, history and political philosophy under a distinguished group of faculty drawn from across the nation. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, who serves on the center's board of directors with Bennett and Bloom, has said he will teach at the new institute...
...idea of a summer institute for undergraduates that would promote the study of classical Western thought first arose over a year ago when Bennett was having dinner with Bloom. Bloom, a mordant critic of higher education and author of the best-selling The Closing of the American Mind, and Bennett agreed that it was time to find a new way to bring back more traditional curricula on college campuses...
...trying to create a required curriculum," said John P. Walters, the new executive director of the Madison Center and Bennett's former chief of staff at the Education Department. "What we're trying to do is say that the central question in the higher education community should be, 'what are the most important works for undergradutes...
...Bennett has never been a favorite with higher education leaders for his often fruitless attempts to cut federal funding of student aid. The former education secretary further aroused their ire earlier this year when he attacked Stanford University for yielding to the demands of vocal student groups that it change its Western Culture program to a course emphasizing non-Western cultures and ideas...
...Bennett charged that the Stanford decision to alter its Western Culture program was "not a product of enlightened debate, but rather an unfortunate capitulation to a campaign of pressure politics and intimidation...