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Aspen Ideas Festival

What is College For?

Season 1 Episode 53 | 56m 30s

At a time when traditional notions of college are under attack — in the shift to online instruction, in the emphasis on STEM fields and the denigration of the liberal arts, in the continued privatization of public higher education — it is urgent that we ask what college is supposed to be about in the first place. What happens when education is understood in purely vocational terms?

Aired: 06/28/15
The Aspen Institute produces the Aspen Ideas Festival in concert with its partner, The Atlantic.
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