450 | Nicholas Dirks: The Uses and Abuses of the University - Where Does Higher Ed Go from Here?

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Nicholas Dirks, former Chancelor of UC Berkeley, author of City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University, and President & CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, joins The Realignment. Nicholas and Marshall discuss how his tenure at UC Berkely in 2010s presaged today's debates over free speech, tuition, and administrative bloat, increased societal distrust of higher education, and how the university system must evolve to meet the needs of a changing America.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.
0:02.8	Just a quick note for dive into today's episode. I hope you all got to see the Sunday episode I posted with SAGER. It's a Q&A, AMA,
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0:35.0	Now into today's conversation, you all know one of my favorite topics, especially now when I'm working at the University of Texas, is the state and future of higher education.
0:44.4	We've seen a bunch of really big era defining news events in this category
0:48.9	the past year, everything from the debates about anti-Semitism and free speech
0:52.4	on campus,
0:53.4	to broader concerns about student debt and the actual increasing size, scale, and
0:57.8	costs of the university system.
1:00.1	All this is mixed together into a broader context where society just has less faith and trust in the higher education system as a whole.
1:06.6	So my guest today, Nicholas Dirks, is exactly the right person to have that conversation with.
1:11.3	He was the Chancellor of UC Berkeley 2013 to 2017,
1:15.4	which is basically one of the earlier big 2010s era of higher education reimagining.
1:20.4	So getting into all these topics with him was really really rewarding.
1:24.0	Huge thanks to the Foundation for American Innovation for the work of this
1:27.5	podcast. I hope you all enjoy this conversation.
1:30.5	Nick Dirks, welcome to the real... conversation.
1:35.0	Nick Dirks, welcome to the realignment. Great to be here, I'm watching.
1:37.0	Yeah, I'm excited to chat with you.
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