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Earlier today, EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz released the General Education Act (GEA), model legislation co-authored with Jenna Robinson of the James G. Martin Center and David Randall of the National Association of Scholars. The GEA breaks the illiberal political and intellectual monopoly on American higher education while upholding academic freedom.
As Kurtz writes in his introduction to the GEA:
The model GEA does three big things. First, it establishes a robust set of course requirements that all students must take to graduate, while putting American history, civics, and the story of Western civilization at the center of that program. Although the West enjoys pride of place, one requirement will give students significant exposure to the history and great works of non-Western civilizations as well. Second, the GEA establishes an independent School of General Education within the university and grants it sole control over most of the new required courses. The GEA then authorizes the new and independent dean of the School of General Education to hire large numbers of faculty members expert in, and committed to, traditional general education. Third, the GEA instructs the university board of trustees to reduce existing faculty to an extent that equals the number of new hires in the School of General Education, authorizing trustees to wholly, or partially, discontinue existing departments and programs, and to dismiss even tenured faculty if necessary. In short, this is a transformative plan.
Read the full text of the General Education Act on EPPC's website.
Read Stanley Kurtz on the GEA in National Review.
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