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“A lot of us have memories from college of late-night conversations debating every topic under the sun, and a lot of students have felt as though that’s missing,” UNC’s chancellor, Lee Roberts, said in an interview.
“For me, the appeal of SCiLL classes is the emphasis on intellectual curiosity, productive disagreement and class discussion,” said Cara Allen, a junior who transferred to UNC from community college.
But differences of opinion over SCiLL have inflamed the broader UNC campus, where pushback is palpable.
Creating schools-within-schools at public universities like the one at UNC has been one of the more ambitious strategies.
And last month, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $10 million matching grant and $100,000 in outright funds to UNC’s SCiLL.
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