Education—Tradition: The College’s first president, Harris Wofford, believed deeply in a traditional Great Books curricula enlivened by Socratic dialogue between scholars and leavened by experience in the world. Many students, and some faculty, wanted greater freedom to direct the curricula away from the traditional canon. When re-established in 1972, the College embraced an interdisciplinary curriculum.
Everyone in Your Class Was Reading The Brothers Karamazov
Harris Wofford
Where Did You Learn That?
Carlos Russell
More and More Structure
Elizabeth Ewen
Being an Experimental College
Went by the Wayside
Samuel von Winbush
Reluctantly Adding Single Disciplines
John Maguire
