CHICAGO (AP) -- Mortimer J. Adler, a high school dropout who went on to become an educational theorist, a father of the Great Books program and the world's highest paid philosopher, died Thursday at ...

Directed Studies, Yale’s year-long Great Books program for first-year undergraduates, could expand by as much as 25 percent next year, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis said in an interview. On ...

The Center for Regional History at Southeast Missouri State University is holding a "Great Books 2001" program from 2-4 p.m. on Thursdays in the Hirsch Room of the Cape Girardeau Public Library. The ...

More than 110 first-year students were waitlisted for the Directed Studies program this fall, according to Katja Lindskog, the program’s director of undergraduate studies. The waitlist for the ...

The “100 Great Books” had long ago scored a smash hit before the undergrads on the University of Chicago’s Midway ‘TIME, Oct. 24,1938). Last week it was on he road, to play to adults, on a four-city ...

Author and academic Dr. Roosevelt Montás will present “Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation” at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on March 2 ...

Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás will share his life journey to highlight the continued relevance of the “Great Books” by writers such as Plato, Augustine, Freud and Gandhi and a ...