Varad Mehta (one of my favorite conservative Twitterers; see this thread, for example) had an essay here over the weekend, in which he criticized those conservatives who leapt to condemn the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., for scrapping its American-history course requirement for history majors. (Among said conservatives was yours truly.) According to Mehta, the curriculum change was not ideological, but strictly financial. GWU is seeing fewer students signing up as history majors; the department's funding is dependent on enrollment; ergo, it's hoping this change and others make the GW history department more attractive to matriculating students.
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