The faculty director of the Boston University Newbury Center joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why, even as colleges and universities have moved to make their campuses more diverse, they are leaving economically disadvantaged students behind.
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New York Times Magazine staff writer Emily Bazelon joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what makes a university a “safe space” for free speech, how 90s era laws complicate that, and how students should be included in discussions about the rules of campus protesting.
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Paul Tough, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the U.S. is an outlier globally when it comes to college popularity.
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Writer Bertrand Cooper makes the case that race-conscious admissions by universities frequently benefit students who are already from elite backgrounds and that it’s time to also consider socioeconomic status.
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Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Belkin joins us to discuss the widening gap between men and women in higher education.
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Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss why Black students have always been an afterthought in higher education, the legacy that has created and the road toward reckoning with this discrimination.
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Caitlin Zaloom, associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, joins us to discuss how college-minded parents are taking on enormous debts to fund higher education and why the middle-class is especially crunched.
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Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, joins us to talk about how our higher education system contributes to inequality.
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Paul Quinn College president Michael J. Sorrell joins us to talk about how COVID-19 complicates the way institutions of higher learning welcome back their students and staff.
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This hour, we’ll talk about affordability, accessibility, and attrition problems when it comes to attending universities and look at whether free college is a viable option to solve these problems.
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University of Texas System Chancellor J.B. Milliken and Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp join us to talk about issues facing higher education.
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Journalist Paul Tough joins us to talk about the hurdles low-income students face to attend college.
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