I thank Becca Vargo Daggett for the thoughtful and detailed post. I think in
many ways we agree. In our different ways we are both saying we need to look
at the big picture.
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ive_Summary.pdf_
I have read the comments about eliminating the General College at the
University of Minnesota.
( Many years ago, I spent 3 years in graduate school at the U studying the
teaching of teaching and the anthropology of university sub- cultures and was
a graduate teaching assistant, teaching
The Bruininks' plan is
really a de facto statement that the U has to become whiter and
richer to become
better.
What? I have seen no evidence to support this statement, or to support
previous statements in this forum that eliminating GC will inevitably
result in fewer students of color at the
