Alexander Meiklejohn founds Experimental College at U of Wisconsin (14 jan 1927 ano – 16 fev 1932 ano)

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from Wiki: "The University of Wisconsin Experimental College was a two-year college designed and led by Alexander Meiklejohn inside the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a great books, liberal arts curriculum. It was established in 1927 and closed in 1932....Students followed a uniform curriculum: Periclean Athens for freshmen and modern America for sophomores. The program sought to teach democracy and to foster an intrinsic love of learning within its students.....The college's students became known as free spirited outsiders within the university for their different dress, apathetic demeanor, and greater interest in reading books. The college's demographics were unlike the rest of the university, with students largely not from Wisconsin and disproportionately of Jewish and East Coast families. The college developed a reputation for radicalism and wanton anarchy, especially within Wisconsin. The students lived and worked with their teachers, called advisers, in Adams Hall, away from the heart of the university. They had no fixed schedule, no compulsory lessons, and no semesterly grades, though they read from a common syllabus. The advisers taught primarily through tutorial instead of lectures. Extracurricular groups, including philosophy, law, and theater clubs, were entirely student-led....The Experimental College influenced programs internal to the university, and was the precursor to its Integrated Liberal Studies undergraduate program." the ISL program started in the late 40's as a great books program and a little college inside of the big university.

He had been pushed out at Amherst for a vareity of reasons, some of which were curricular. "The [Experimental College had no formal classes and the curriculum stressed an in-depth study of a single topic at a time, devoting the first year to the civilization of Greece and the second to the civilization of England. The experimental college inspired its students, but was an administrative failure and ended in 1932. Meiklejohn continued to teach at Wisconsin until 1938. "(https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Encyclopedia/Meiklejohn.html)

Worked in adult ed later, ACLU member, UNESCO, etc.

from encyclopedia.com:
"The short-lived experiment [at Wisconsin], however, gave birth to a long-lived legacy: Over the next half-century, the Experimental College inspired scores of innovative undergraduate programs across the United States."

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