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At Reed College: Occupation of Hum 110

September 11, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Inside Higher Ed
By Colleen Flaherty
September 11, 2017

An education from Reed College, where students' sense of individualism is perhaps matched only by their studiousness, is anything but common.  And recently one of Reed's most distinctive experience -- one designed, ironically, to bring students together -- has become one of its most divisive.

"We don't ever want to repeat what happened that Wednesday -- we don't ever want there to be shouting over one another and shouting people down," said Kevin Myers, a Reed spokesperson, about escalating tensions over the college's signature yearlong freshman humanities course.

Read the full article at the Inside Higher Ed website here.

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