Nine Ways of Knowing

On a campus already in flux, Barnard students gathered at a town hall meeting Wednesday night to discuss changes in the school’s general education requirements, the Nine Ways of Knowing.

Barnard students and administrators gathered Thursday evening to address the discussion of race and ethnicity in the classroom one day after student government representatives issued a statement calling for a diversification of the college’s general education requirements.

As Committee on Instruction administrators evaluate Barnard’s Nine Ways of Knowing, college student government representatives are calling for immediate diversification of the college’s requirements.

In middle school, I stumbled into the fourth dimension and never found my way out. Two people pushed me over the hyper-edge: Madeleine L’Engle, the author of A Wrinkle in Time, and Mr. Orchid, my seventh grade English teacher.