{"id":2402,"date":"2007-05-08T19:08:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T03:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/inquiry-or-indoctrination\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T19:08:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T03:08:21","slug":"inquiry-or-indoctrination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/inquiry-or-indoctrination\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry or Indoctrination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/05\/03\/ucsd\">Inquiry or Indoctrination?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it: Comp 101 doesn\u2019t tend to be the most controversial of courses. But at the University of California at San Diego, a campaign officially begun last month to alter a required freshman writing and social science curriculum has already claimed two casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Balthaser and Scott Boehm, two graduate teaching assistants who have led the campaign to restore the year-long Dimensions of Culture sequence to what they say is its original form, have not been re-hired for the upcoming academic year \u2014 a circumstance all parties agree is attributable to their efforts to change the curriculum from within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Inquiry or Indoctrination? Let\u2019s face it: Comp 101 doesn\u2019t tend to be the most controversial of courses. But at the University of California at San Diego, a campaign officially begun last month to alter a required freshman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/inquiry-or-indoctrination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}