tailgater wrote:So let's go back to the OP.
Seems that this college wants to remove the teaching of the Constitution as required curriculum.
That is a gross misstatement.
Charleston College had a "freshman reading" program in which a single book is distributed to all Freshmen. This is not really part of the curricula for the college, as there isn't a class or any grading associated with this. To call it mandated reading is a horrendous stretch. The book selected one year dealt with a lesbian living in the south.
USC-Upstate has a full year Writing101 course which is mandatory for all freshmen. The book discussed in this course changes annually and one year they selected a book which was a collection of stories about gay/transgender lives.
As these are state schools, the legislature decided to reduce the budget for each school by exactly the cost of these two programs. This specific money was only returned with an earmark that it be used to instruct students on the constitution.
Legislature dictating college curricula through $$ is an issue. This is an issue on an educational side of things and butts up against the entire concept of tenure. If a state college has to worry about its curriculum pissing off whatever state is giving it funding, then you cannot expect the school to teach any controversial ideas. May as well give up on getting a science program of any value in the south.