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Another alternative school was Black Mountain College, founded in 1933. The school was established by classical scholar and professional gadfly John Andrew Rice following his dismissal from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, over a dispute concerning salary cuts and curriculum innovations. With a group of other dissident Rollins professors, Rice rented a group of buildings owned by the Blue Ridge Assembly of the Protestant Church near Black Mountain, North Carolina, and gained funding from a wealthy New England philanthropist. Like the folk schools, Black Mountain emphasized the college as community and encouraged strong interpersonal relations between teachers and students. It stressed pedagogical experimentation and refused to set fixed regulations or parameters for graduation. Black Mountain established a reputation as a center for avant-garde art in the United States. In its twentythree year existence, Black Mountain enjoyed the participation of some of the finest creative...
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