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When Bennett took over the Department of Education's top job in early 1985--after three apparently successful years as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)--the signs were hopeful. He was, after all, a Democrat. Moreover, New Republic President and Harvard Lecturer on Social Studies Martin H. Peretz raved about his buddy "Bill" Bennett...
...stance he has strengthened in the past 20 months. Supporters of educational equality jumped on Bennett because they feared a two-tiered system of higher education: Ivy College for the rich, State U. for the poor. This was the same Bill Bennett, who as the head of NEH, had refused to comply with an affirmative action decree from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...African culture, history and politics has drawn a sharp attack from Lynne Cheney, the Reagan-appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which supplied $600,000 of the program's $3.5 million budget. The series, she charges, "frequently degenerates into anti-Western diatribe" and fails to meet NEH's "standards of balance and objectivity." Among her complaints: a sympathetic portrayal of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. At Cheney's insistence, NEH's name was removed from the show's credits, and a request for funds to promote the show was denied...
...that it is intended to be an African's view of Africa. Its writer and host, Ali A. Mazrui, a Kenya- born professor of political science at the University of Michigan, admits that his opinions do not "fall into the mainstream of American thinking." But he argues that NEH ought to be willing to "fund things that are outside the perspective of the Western world...
...result of the findings, the NEH has announced two new initiatives--"Understanding America," and "Understanding Other Nations"--intended to "reinvigorate concern for learning" about this and other countries, said Thomas...