Dr. Caroline Levander - How to Reform Our Universities (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_934)

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Caroline is Professor of English, Carlson Professor in the Humanities, and Vice President for Global Strategy at Rice University. We discuss how to foster a creativity mindset in students, interdisciplinarity, specialists vs generalists in academia, literature, fiction versus nonfiction reading, among many interesting topics. Caroline's latest book "Invent Ed: How an American Tradition of Innovation Can Transform College Today" (MIT Press) will be released on December 16, 2025. Amazon link: https://shorturl.at/9DvTM _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on December 10, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1957: https://youtu.be/FjJX1NO-6ng _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	I'm delighted to report that I have joined as a scholar, the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi.
0:10.8	The center offers educational opportunities, speakers, internship, and reading groups for the University of Mississippi community.
0:18.9	It is named in honor of the United States founding document
0:23.2	which constitutes the nation as a political community
0:27.0	and expresses fundamental principles of American freedom,
0:31.4	including in the recognition of the importance of Judeo-Christian values
0:35.5	in shaping American exceptionalism.
0:39.3	Dedicated to the academic and open-minded exploration of these principles, the Center exists
0:45.3	to encourage exploration into the many facets of freedom. It will sponsor a speaker series
0:51.3	and an interdisciplinary faculty research team. If you'd like to learn more
0:56.3	about the center, please visit Olmiss. That's O-E-M-I-S-S dot EDU slash independence slash.
1:05.7	Hi, everybody. Start of the New Week with another fantastic guest. Today I've got Carolyn Levander. I'll mention who she is
1:12.7	in a second. How are you doing? I'm doing well and really happy to be here. Thanks so much.
1:17.8	Likewise. Okay. So let me just read very quickly who you are. You're a professor of English at Rice
1:22.8	University and the Carlson Professor in the Humanities. You're the vice president for global strategy responsible.
1:29.7	I took this from your website,
1:30.9	responsible for expanding Rice's global impact
1:33.3	through the development of new international campuses,
1:36.5	academic programs, partnership, and research collaborations.
1:39.6	Your latest book with MIT Press,
1:42.3	which we're going to talk about today,
1:43.9	Invent ED, how an American
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