I know a lot of people like to denigrate the accomplishments of C.U.N.Y., and it had back-slided horribly after an open admissions policy was adopted under Mayor Lindsay, but they are one of the few city college systems that have a firm Core curriculum.
I wasn't able to graduate from Brooklyn College without reading from the works of Shakespeare, Dickinson, Keats, Thucydides, Euripides, and a host of classic American novelists.
"I wasn't able to graduate from Brooklyn College without reading from the works of Shakespeare, Dickinson, Keats, Thucydides, Euripides, and a host of classic American" Me too. When I graduated Brooklyn College years ago, we also were required to read Goethe and Moliere-- in the original German and French.
I am very grateful for that classical education and still have many books from the college courses.