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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ricketts, Glenn; Wood, Peter R.; Balch, Stephen H.; Thorne, Ashley – National Association of Scholars, 2011
"The Vanishing West" traces the decline and near extinction of the Western Civilization history survey course in America's top colleges and universities from 1964 to 2010. This course, covering classical antiquity to the present, was once part of the undergraduate curriculum's intellectual bedrock, not only because it was often a graduation…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Curriculum, Introductory Courses, Western Civilization