Abraham Unger: A Conservatory Model for Liberal Arts
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English - July 12, 2021 15:31 - 45 minutes - 83.1 MB - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsCourses Education Government academicfreedom university academicexcellence accountability accreditation college collegetuition costsofcollege curricularreform freespeech Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Professor Abraham Unger has a unique vision for liberal arts education. Long before before spending a decade as Director of Urban Programs at Wagner College in New York, he was an undergraduate student concentrating on classical guitar at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. In this episode of Higher Ed Now, he sits down with ACTA's Michael Poliakoff and Doug Sprei to reflect on the precarious condition of colleges and universities today, and explores the concept he is shaping for liberal arts education based on the conservatory model he experienced as an undergraduate.