Clinging to the Core

The University of Dallas has backed away from a controversial proposal to wade into adult degree completion -- a proposal that roiled the liberal arts university over much of the last year.  The proposal isn’t dead yet. But it has been moved behind a pair of other expansion ideas some see as a better fit for the private Roman Catholic university, which has long embraced an expansive core undergraduate curriculum rooted in the classics. Many faculty members worried an adult degree-completion program would not uphold the spirit or content of that core curriculum.