I just read through the O'Reilly Radar blog about Google's efforts to help modernize CS curricula in distributed computing.  Very cool resources:

http://code.google.com/edu/content/parallel.html

A recent article in the NY Times "Revisiting the Canon Wars" (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Donadio-t.html) took a 20 year retrospective look at the controversy over Alan Bloom's book "The Closing of the American Mind". Bloom argued that American universities had been "dumbed down" by abandoning the classical Western canon.

Lots to argue about here, and the article gives a taste of the argument. However, I was most struck by the way the article ended: