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A $300,000 grant from the New York–based Teagle Foundation will allow the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH) to bring Boston-area high school students to campus for the next three summers to participate in a seminar program intended to deepen their engagement with the classics while better preparing them for college and life as an engaged citizen.
Called the One and the Many at BU, the program’s first goal is to “inspire the students and get them excited about the humanities,” says BUCH director Susan Mizruchi. “The second goal is to enhance their skills in reading and writing and articulating ideas. The third is just to give them firsthand experience of what university life is like.”
Rioters storm the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
There’s no shortage of lenses through which to examine this week’s Capitol riots: politics, history, race, gender, economics, media studies and more. Perhaps the through line in all these perspectives is education, and the liberal arts in particular. And many scholars say that education is at the heart of what went wrong in Washington as well as the tunnel through which the U.S. can exit a dark place.
“If we needed a reminder of the fragility of our democracy, we got one,” said Andrew Delbanco, president of the Teagle Foundation, which promotes liberal arts education, and Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. “In the long run, the only force that can save democracy is an educated citizenry citizens, that is, who know enough to resist the kind of lies and incitements spewed out by the current president and his enablers.”
Foundation Chief Andrew Delbanco Wants All Students to Wrestle With Great Books
The professor and author hopes to expand humanities offerings on campus, even for scientists and engineers
Columbia University students in class with Mr. Delbanco, 2006. Photo: Eileen Barroso; University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries By Emily Bobrow Dec. 18, 2020 11:49 am ET
Andrew Delbanco recalls teaching a class about Abraham Lincoln at Columbia University several years ago and having a student challenge his regard for the Gettysburg Address. The young Black woman wondered how he could expect her to share his respect for a Civil War speech that never mentioned slavery. “That’s a really hard question,” Mr. Delbanco says.