"The academic program is wholly unstructured." -Sarah Lawrence
"The major-less, requirement-free curriculum almost certainly helps..." - Bennington College
"Hampshire College does not provide majors or grades."
"The taxpayer-funded college has no grades. Instead, professors write narrative evaluations of each student’s work." - Evergreen State College
BTW, it is sad to see San Francisco State University on the list. I guess Language in Thought and Action, that excellent book written by one of their former presidents, S.I. Hayakawa, is banned reading on campus now.
S. I. Hayakawa, the renowned semanticist who defied striking student radicals at San Francisco State University in the late 1960s and subsequently was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican, died Thursday. He was 85. Spokesmen at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., said he had been hospitalized with bronchitis, and that he died of a stroke about 1 a.m. He had lived in the nearby town of Mill Valley. "He was invaluable during some very difficult times--a courageous man of integrity and principle," former President Ronald Reagan said in a statement.
At the time he was one of the most popular public figures in the state, a hero to multitudes of Californians outraged by student militants and Vietnam War demonstrators.
Those heroics began Dec. 2, 1968, when Hayakawa, an English professor who had just become acting president of San Francisco State, confronted a howling, jeering mob of striking students.
When he could not make himself heard over a blaring sound truck, Hayakawa leaped to the top of the truck and ripped the wires from the sound system--all recorded on live television.
Ooooh Rah! You were a good man, Professor Hayakawa!
(That's him in the Clark Kent glasses & Tam O'Shanter in the photo below)
