But arguments for revising the core curriculum are historically situated and context specific. What worked for Matthew Arnold in 19th century England or for Robert Hutchins at the University of Chicago in the 1930s or John Dewey in the first half of the preceding century will not work in the early years of the 21st century. For a 21st-century Core, we can’t look to the past. For one good reason: The Internet.

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By Rick Branscomb English Department Rick Branscomb In his essay “Some Remarks on Humor,” noted New Yorker writer E. B. White wrote, “to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about a man.” Courtesy UNH Magazine When I was in graduate school at the University of [...]

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