{"id":759,"date":"2006-03-01T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/is_that_glib_headline_writer_saying_what_theyre_thinking.html"},"modified":"2006-03-01T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T17:06:12","slug":"is_that_glib_he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/is_that_glib_he.html","title":{"rendered":"Is That Glib Headline Writer Saying What They&#8217;re Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you really want to headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2006\/03\/01\/44055b4d9566e\">an article about diversifying Columbia&#8217;s Core Curriculum<\/a> &#8220;Bringing Color To The Core&#8221;? At least that&#8217;s not really the first thing that comes to my mind when boiling down the issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The movement to diversify the Core Curriculum and make it less Western-centric is not new; in fact, it reaches back more than 10 years. But recently, efforts to change the Core\u00e2\u20ac\u201despecially Contemporary Civilization\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhave gained momentum, and professors, administrators, and students are opening a more direct dialogue on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The push to change the Core intensified following the 2004 protests when Columbia University Concerned Students of Color called for a panel of faculty members to evaluate the Core, a class addressing racism and colonialism, and diversity training for professors and graduate preceptors.<\/p>\n<p>The review of the Core is happening now, and diversity training is in the works, thanks to Contemporary Civilization Director Phillip Kitcher.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you really want to headline an article about diversifying Columbia&#8217;s Core Curriculum &#8220;Bringing Color To The Core&#8221;? At least that&#8217;s not really the first thing that comes to my mind when boiling down the issue: The movement to diversify the Core Curriculum and make it less Western-centric is not new; in fact, it reaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}