![]() ![]() in poetry: only slightly less mockable.)īrown has produced enough notable writers - contributors here include Jeffrey Eugenides, Lois Lowry, Rick Moody, Meg Wolitzer and Edwidge Danticat - that you can field a whole book of them, ignoring the scientists and social workers and entrepreneurs. with a postmodern bent and for a highly mockable major in art/semiotics. Brown is known for admitting quirkier students, for a creative-writing M.F.A. Magaziner, this Providence, R.I., university has been unique among its Ivy League peers for its New Curriculum, which eliminated distribution requirements and allows students to take classes ungraded. Since 1969, thanks to activism described in the book by the longtime Bill Clinton adviser Ira C. ![]() In it, 50 alumni writers reflect on their years at the school, whether as undergraduates or graduate students.īrown is a distinctive place. That reality is described and praised - and, some might fear, memorialized - in “The Brown Reader,” an anthology published as part of Brown University’s 250th anniversary celebration. But that first, faintly retro notion of an open-ended, self-directed romp through the liberal arts was and is a reality for some students. This second, bluntly practical vision of higher education’s purpose is the one now ascendant: College has become an expensive yet increasingly de rigueur means to an end. ![]() I mean, college kids should ingest a balanced diet of STEM subjects and work-study experiences calculated to prepare them for a career, while carefully weighing the now staggering cost of tuition against projected future earnings. Every kid should have the chance to go to college: America’s future depends on our youth having four years to immerse themselves in experimental literature, plan campus protests, mainline coffee and make out with strangers. ![]()
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