Senator Mehreen Faruqi, the Australian Greens spokesperson for Education and a former academic, reacted to this morning\u2019s news that the University of Wollongong has accepted the John Howard-led Ramsay Centre\u2019s funding for a degree in \u2018Western Civilisation\u2019.
\nShe said:
\n\u201cToday\u2019s news is a blow to academic freedom in Australia.
\n\u201cAs a former academic, I can unequivocally say that allowing any organisation to influence curriculum, let alone one as shady as this centre, is a huge mistake.
\n\u201cThe Ramsay Centre wants nothing more than to churn out students with an uncritical view of Western Civilisation, and they\u2019re willing to shower our public universities with money to make that happen.
\n\u201cWe must push back hard against this idea of cultural supremacy and stand strongly for academic freedom and critical thinking.
\n\u201cThe University of Wollongong can still do the right thing and reject the Ramsay Centre\u2019s money and the ideology that comes with it,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, the Australian Greens spokesperson for Education and a former academic, reacted to this morning\u2019s news that the University of Wollongong has accepted the John Howard-led Ramsay Centre\u2019s funding for a degree in \u2018Western Civilisation\u2019. She said: \u201cToday\u2019s news is a blow to academic freedom in Australia. \u201cAs a former academic, I can … Continue reading “University of Wollongong Should Return Cultural Supremacist Ramsay Centre\u2019s Money”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}