Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades after Vietnam and just a few years after the fall of European communism, the values of Western civilization are out of the doghouse and back at the center of educational debate in the form of a "Great Books" program...
...These would be works which were by common consent necessary to the education of civilized people," Mansfield says. "They would include non-Western works not merely because they are non-Western, but because they are good or great...
...seen the Great Books list and I don't like it because people whine enough about diversity on campus, and this would just make it worse, and this gives a very Western-centric view," says Merrick Tien...
Replacing a system of distribution requirements, the General Education program was approved by the Faculty in late October, 1945, just three months after the Japanese surrender and the victory of the Western powers in World War II. Victory in the war was widely credited not to a surplus of men, machinery or economic muscle, but rather to the superiority of Western culture...
Honig and Whinston have both received full tenure offers at North-western University. Honig says they have not made a decision about whether to accept the offer...