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COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education, and indeed for our nation as a whole; it has intensified pressures already threatening liberal arts education. Our conversations aim to enable colleges and universities across the country to learn from one another in addressing today's challenges and opportunities, and they will encourage these institutions to draw on the rich heritage of the liberal arts tradition, while acknowledging its historical limitations, in shaping their responses. Our goal is to think and talk in public about the enduring value of the liberal arts for the particular concerns and challenges of our time.
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Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Liberal Arts Beyond the University
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Who are the liberal arts for? It is often assumed that liberal arts education is for the privileged, for those who have little need of a practical skill or trade.
But this view dismisses much experience which shows that the least advantaged are often the most strongly impacted by liberal arts education and have the most to gain from it. In this conversation we hear from Dr. Emily Auerbach who has spent nearly twenty years engaging in liberal arts education with the least advantaged, and Dr. Francis Su, who has mentored and co-authored with a young man who has found his voice in high level mathematics, despite being imprisoned.
Odyssey Project Website
Odyssey Project Documentary
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Math Prize Shared with Christopher Jackson
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