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Individual and institution are further, and inexorably, linked by the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, a private family foundation that supports various direct-service organizations. Mr. von Furstenberg, a Bachelor of Arts graduate in Brown, is the director and secretary of the Foundation.
Brown was the first Ivy League school to accept students from all religious affiliations. Women were admitted for the first time to its campus in 1891. In the almost three centuries of its existence, the pillar of higher education has placed importance on its curriculum.
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Alex von Furstenberg is an alumnus of Brown University, one of the many beneficiaries of the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation. Institution and organization are both advocates of academic freedom.
The Brown Curriculum
A liberal approach to academics has been alive in Brown University since its inception. The institution has traditionally encouraged its students to study broadly and deeply, to engage in self-examination, and to build a moral core.
This liberal arts approach has been challenged over time, with changes ranging from enabling students to "study what [they] chose, all that [they] chose, and nothing but what [they] chose" to giving them “the right to choose, the right to fail, and above all the freedom to direct their own education.”
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Learn more about the Brown Curriculum at www.brown.edu. Visit www.alexvonfurstenberg.com for more information about Alex von Furstenberg and his family’s private foundation.
