Educational Perennialism - Colleges Exemplifying This Philosophy

Colleges Exemplifying This Philosophy

• The Core Curriculum of Columbia College of Columbia University, is probably the best-known example of educational perennialism. It is a rare example of perennialist pedagogy at a research university.
• The University of Chicago's Common Core, established by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins is another well-known example of educational perennialism.
• St. John's College, U.S. is a well-known secular liberal-arts college with an undergraduate program described as "an all-required course of study based on the great books of the Western tradition."
• Integral Program at Saint Mary's College of California is a Great Books major at the Lasallian Catholic liberal-arts college in Moraga, California. The program was designed with the assistance of faculty from St. John's College, U.S.
• Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California is a Catholic Christian college with a Great Books curriculum. The college was founded by a group of graduates and professors of the Integral Program at Saint Mary's College of California, who were discouraged by the liberalism that became common place among the faculty and administration on Saint Mary's campus shortly after Vatican II.
• Gutenberg College in Eugene, Oregon provides "a broad-based liberal arts education in a Protestant Christian environment", with a "great books" curriculum emphasizing "the development of basic learning skills (reading, writing, mathematics, and critical thinking) and the application of these skills to profound writings of the past"
• Shimer College in Chicago grants a Bachelor of Arts to students who complete a program composed of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, integrative studies and a capstone senior thesis.
• The Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University is a Christian Great Books program.
• George Wythe University in Cedar City, Utah, a liberal arts college focused on preparing students for leadership.