I finally made it to Grove City College. I just got back from a dinner with about five students and a history professor. All good conservatives. Amy Martin, the leader of the ISI Group here, gave me a tour of the campus (a very beautiful campus with neo-gothic architecture). Just about everyone here is conservative and Christian, they get a good solid liberal arts education with a great core curriculum and almost all of the students I met (certainly a limited selection) were history majors! Excellent. This is not only a conservative’s dream, but THIS conservative’s dream!
It was a great visit and the group is still grappling with exactly how to make their reading group even more successful. Because this campus is quite different than almost all other campuses, the group will have to adjust for that and it is obviously going to need to be different than most other ISI Groups in that respect. Most other ISI Groups form because they’re not getting a solid enough education inside the classroom, and they usually know exactly what they want. This group will have to serve more to cultivate their own intellect even more and perhaps better articulate what kind of conservative thought they will study, learn and ultimate embody. I look forward to helping them and learning how they do it.
In any event, it was great to finally make it to this much talked about campus and perhaps more campuses like this will emerge in order that we might be better stewards of more students’ educations.
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