Upon his death in 1799, George Washington’s will set aside 50 shares of the Potowmack Company in his estate to fund the creation of a national university in the nation’s capital. Just over 20 years later, an Act of Congress created the Columbian College in the District of Columbia which subsequently changed its name to George Washington University in 1904 in honor of Washington. Per WikiPedia:
George Washington, the first president of the United States, had indicated to Congress through various letters, as well as his last will and testament, that he wanted to establish a university within the nation’s capital. Washington left fifty shares of the Potowmack Company in his estate for a national university in the District of Columbia. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on February 9, 1821, as the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. In 1904, it changed its name to the George Washington University in honor of Washington.
Now, some 200 years later, GWU, like many of the nation’s universities, has been overrun with liberal, elitist professors who have decided to shun America’s first president, and the inspiration behind the founding their university, by removing U.S. History as a required course for history majors. Of course, why would U.S. history be important for history majors…this country has been a fairly irrelevant player in shaping world history for the past 200 years.
Syndicated radio host Larry Elders recently blasted the decision on Fox News as just another effort to indoctrinate students with the notion that “America is nothing more than a series of incidents that oppress people,
whether it’s Native Americans or women or blacks or Hispanics or Asian
people.”
“According to a lot of professors, the founding fathers are a bunch of old rich white guys who owned slaves,” syndicated radio host Larry Elder said Monday on “Fox & Friends.” “As a result, they’re no longer relevant.”
“I call this the access of indoctrination. Schools have long since passed the line from education to indoctrination, and this is one more step toward that.”
“Kids are learning that America is nothing more than a series of incidents that oppress people, whether it’s Native Americans or women or blacks or Hispanics or Asian people,” he said. “That’s what they’re learning.”
Meanwhile, the chair of GWU’s history department told the school’s newspaper that the move was nothing more than an effort to cater to the university’s snowflakes who may be saddened by the burden of being forced to take a U.S. history course.
Katrin Schultheiss, the chair of the history department, said faculty made the changes to the requirements largely due to enrollment pressures. She said by becoming more flexible and more responsive to students’ interests, the department hopes to recruit students who might not have decided to major in history otherwise.
“I think the main gain for students is that they have a great deal more flexibility than they had before, and they can adapt it to whatever their plans are for the future,” Schultheiss said. “Whatever they want to do, there’s a way to make the history department work for them.”
This pretty much sums up our thoughts:
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