What we look for within our professors first and foremost is people that love to teach and that are passionate about teaching because that we believe is actually one of the fundamental failings of higher education in general.

That higher education has biased toward research scholarship and therefore biased away from the actual education of students. I'm going Gunn, and welcome to the future podcast.

Today's guest is the managing director of Brand and Creative at the Minerva Project.

Now, if you're not already familiar with it, the Manover Project is a new university

program designed to reinvent higher education. And it sounds really exciting. So if you're interested

in teaching or education, then do not skip this one.

He tells Chris about graduating from UCLA's design program and how starting a

Zine landed him a job at one of the most prestigious design firms in the world. Beyond the proverbial

origin story, the two talk in depth about the problems with America's education

system and they get into the why, what, and how this radical new school through its unconventional

methods is going head to head with the Ivy Leagues. I don't throw this word around

a lot but this episode is fantastic and it gives me hope for the future generations to come.

Please enjoy our lightning conversation with I.O. Seligman.

I appreciate you doing this call with me, this podcast, and I'm very excited to talk to you about

what your current project is. But for everybody that might not know who you are, can you introduce yourself and give us a little description or how you describe yourself to the world?

Sure. My name is I. OseSelligman. I'm currently the managing director of Brandon Creative at the Minerva Project and

and Minerva is an educational innovator that established back in 2012 a new university program that sought to completely reinvent higher education.

Yeah, it's very topical and it's where I think I'm going to spend most of this conversation with you today is about Minerva. I'm very passionate about education and it's very interesting that this has been many years in the works and how it's

coinciding with the pandemic that we're all trying to sort out, especially as

the impacts ripple through all sectors of education. But before we go there, I want to go back into

your past a little bit because your past is very interesting and I think it might be illuminating

to some of the things that we're going to talk about.

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