Brown receives nod for intellectual diversity

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>Inside Higher Education offers Brown’s Political Theory Project as a model for other institutions
<a href=“Views”>http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/08/26/johnson</a></p>

<p>“In an ideal world, campus administrators would have rectified this problem long ago. A few have made small steps. Brown University’s president, Ruth Simmons, for instance, has expressed concern that the “chilling effect caused by the dominance of certain voices on the spectrum of moral and political thought” might negatively affect a quality education; her university’s Political Theory Project represents a model that other institutions could follow.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Political_Theory_Project/[/url]”>http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Political_Theory_Project/</a></p>

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<p>That's cool... I'm sure Brown would serve as a great model for other institutions.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately the number of courses and students who take them are small...for example, the class I took last semester on classical liberal theory had 5 students in it!</p>

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<p>maybe it's because they are upper level PS classes, and other students are busy studying other things. upper level IR, neuro, and many other classes are just as small--that's the appeal, as i understand it.</p>

<p>and six sponsored classes aren't enough?</p>

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<p>No, they arent all upper level classes. Some are fys. But...this is not supposed to be a debate.</p>