Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with University of Chicago professor and best-selling author Allan Bloom, Bennett is laying plans to establish a summer institute aimed at reforming college curricula and exposing undergraduates to the "great books...
Together with a Washington, D.C. public policy center, the summer institute will be called the Madison Center. The public policy side of the center will fund scholars and sponsor seminars on education, drug abuse, law enforcement, and other domestic issues...
...institute, which will begin next summer at a campus 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...
Mansfield said that the purpose of the summer institute is "to do what we can to revive the spirit of higher education in the country...