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Aspen Ideas Festival
What is College For?
Season 1
Episode 53
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?
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48:09
Opening Session
44:48
John Dickerson, Interviewer, Ray Kelly
43:11
Maureen Conway, Joseph Echevarria, Blair Taylor, Judy Samuelson, Moderator, Mark Warner
7:23
Featuring organist Cameron Carpenter
24:28
Featuring Congressman Paul Ryan
39:48
Gwen Ifill moderates a diverse panel of experts on the American experience.
22:19
Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel
30:28
Featuring Retired General David Petraeus.
22:56
In conversation with Valerie Jarrett
58:08
Ronald Brownstein, Moderator, Fred Krupp, Mark Tercek
54:42
Tom Fanning, Zoë Baird, Mark Warner, Gillian Tett, Moderator
1:03:52
James Bennet, Moderator, David Boies, Theodore B. Olson